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Re:Possible unconventional computing techniques of the future by corysama on Thursday February 12, 2015 @01:22PM (#9040308)
I never understood people who complain about computers rapidly and continuously getting better and cheaper. That's an incredibly short-sighted point of view. Your old computer would still run Windows 3.1 the same as it always did if you hadn't traded it up for something better. The creation of better machines didn't make your old machine any worse except through your raised aspirations. The poor have benefited immensely from Moore's Law and related effects. What used to require a corporate datacenter can now be had in a cheapo android tablet. The environment has benefited similarly through greatly improved computer-aided design and logistical efficiency. Wishing for that process to stop is a highly self-destructive line of thought.

If the problems of e-waste and computational access for the poor are issues you care about then go work for a computer recycle/reuse center. While you're there, cheer on Moore's Law for bringing better and better tech to the center's inbox by making it so cheap that people are happy to give it away for free!

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