Re:Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012)
by dane-pgp on Thursday May 30, 2019 @08:32PM
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But to create 10 times as much value, you don't have to necessarily press buttons 10 times faster or 10 times harder.
It's possible that by pressing the same number of buttons per year (i.e. the same number of programmer hours worked), the current generation of software in the world could be upgraded to a new, more valuable generation of software.
There's a question of whether new software (presumably with extra features) necessarily uses more energy (per user, per year), but it seems possible that one year's more-valuable-software could be more energy-efficient than the previous year's less-valuable-software.
It's possible that by pressing the same number of buttons per year (i.e. the same number of programmer hours worked), the current generation of software in the world could be upgraded to a new, more valuable generation of software.
There's a question of whether new software (presumably with extra features) necessarily uses more energy (per user, per year), but it seems possible that one year's more-valuable-software could be more energy-efficient than the previous year's less-valuable-software.