> it's time to start planning for the end of Moore's Law
Do we? Because all current software runs on current hardware. Even if in the next ten years we only get another 1% increase in speed, then the current software will run at the current speed (something which we are all perfectly fine with right now). I think it's indeed a doom and gloom article.
I want it. Python is 100x slower than C. I want a language that doesn't need to worry about performance. I want computers optimized for humans, not them. I want computers that can model the weather, the ocean. I want search algorithms that optimize car engines, electric plants. a million x isn't nearly good enough.
Do we? Because all current software runs on current hardware. Even if in the next ten years we only get another 1% increase in speed, then the current software will run at the current speed (something which we are all perfectly fine with right now). I think it's indeed a doom and gloom article.