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EDIT: I also want to see hardware manufacturers reclaiming the hardware they made that is outdated and no longer in use to return it to raw materials and reuse it to make the next generations of parts.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.
And we can have this.
We aren't going to be stuck forever with an economic system where every factor possible pushes for producing more, not even for the sake of meeting everyone's needs, but because you can't turn a profit without making sales constantly. Where keeping the lights on at factories requires having some kind of feature that's Betterβ’ than other models. Where it's trivial to offload all sorts of externalities upon people who are forced to accept them under threat of economic isolation or military invasion. Where those same forms of coercion and force allow for some people's labour to be worth 1/1,000th as much as those of other people doing the exact same work on another continent. Where software developers are constrained either by the priorities of their bosses or a lack of spare time to shipping the first version that happens to run fast enough on the most of the hardware it's expected to be run on, rather than getting to fine-tune their software as far as their skill and imagination can take them. Where so much of the innovation that is done to improve performance per watt is cordoned off behind patents and the implicit threat of violence which gives them force.
We're just going to need to force a better world to exist, the interests of those who want this world to stay as it is or make it worse be damned.
