, eddwo wrote  What do you need a 128 GHz chip for?  Are you
modelling turbulent flows in fluid dynamics, or do you just want
prettier graphics in your games?    I'm sure we all want to
approach holodeck style realism one day, but for most tasks the
current systems are probably more than powerful enough.  People
adapt a lot more slowly than computers. We still get people
asking us for 'minimum system requirements', or what PC should
they buy to run our software, when in truth for all but the most
demanding applications any computer under 5 years old will do
fine.    I'm still using a Core 2 Duo 6300 from 2006 as my
development machine, just with rather a bit more RAM now than
what it started with.   What we really need is a way to actually
make full use the capabilities of the systems we have without
all the 'bloating' that has gone on. We have mostly just adapted
to faster computers by creating more inefficient software, which
leaves us roughly in the same position we were a decade ago in
terms of responsive