"If I were to become a dictator of a large part of the world, I’d tax heavily all the extra cycles, all extra watts of power wasted, all extra RAM, and all excess bytes sent over the wire, and tax it enough to eat into profits of big tech. Incentives done right would make the developers think of efficiency from day one"
The best part about this is all the current first world countries could deal with that tax increase, and all the developing countries can't. It's a great way to ensure the technology gains of the world don't go to any of the countries that need them
"we are just as far from actually automating the boring stuff away as we have been for the last 40 years."
that's quite a statement. millions of white papers on new technology and billions (probably trillions) of dollars spent on automation moved us zero steps in the direction we've been aiming for?
The best part about this is all the current first world countries could deal with that tax increase, and all the developing countries can't. It's a great way to ensure the technology gains of the world don't go to any of the countries that need them
"we are just as far from actually automating the boring stuff away as we have been for the last 40 years."
that's quite a statement. millions of white papers on new technology and billions (probably trillions) of dollars spent on automation moved us zero steps in the direction we've been aiming for?