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Comment by marginalia_nu

I think it's largely Parkinson's law.

Computers are faster so it becomes viable to build slower, more complex and less efficient systems.

By large, computer systems have similar capacities as they did 20 years ago, and similar performance too; only difference is that back then we accomplished the same thing on a potato processor, and today we use a world brain.

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