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@alcinnz One topic that I feel isn't explored enough is software efficiancy on all levels. You can use software from the 90s to do the same work that was possible back then (search for information online, listen so music, design a flyer or write some document, so some calculations in a complex spreadsheet, even watch videos) and it will be incredibly snappy with minimal latency. Experiments like that show how much worse software has effectively become over the years, from the performance point of view.

I remember when I installed Windows 95 on a 2 GHz Athlon XP or something once and when I clicked the start button it felt like the menu was open before I even clicked. Because we're used to a little bit of latency. You can't get this effect even on a modern PC when you install Windows 95 in a VM because of all the stuff modern systems add.

How nuch of the modern abstraction layers do we really need; How much do we want? And how much do we just use out of convenience? Are native apps really not feasable anymore in a commercial envirenment? Then maybe something needs to be changed in the envirenment.

How much energy could be saved over decades if certain coding principles with efficiancy in mind would be adopted instead of making the task more complex all the time?