I don't want to see hardware manufacturers pushing for higher performance. I want to see hardware manufacturers pushing for more power efficiency, maintaining current performance with less electricity and less heat output. I want to see hardware manufacturers pushing for hardware designs that see less of a burden to produce on the environment and on the people who extract the raw materials. I want to see the people extracting the raw materials treated better, paid better. I want to see software developers looking into more efficient implementations of their programs, making better use of the performance we do have available.
EDIT: I also want to see hardware manufacturers reclaiming the hardware they made that is outdated and no longer in use to return it to raw materials and reuse it to make the next generations of parts. Enough dumping this shit in landfills. Enough overmining of resources when we already have plenty.
i keep thinking like. i am typing this on a laptop from 2012 and it does everything I need, its the computer i use for almost everything. What if I had this with exactly the same specs but made with 2024-level manufacturing capabilities. it'd probably use like half the power at least, maybe even less
