By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026Even if your application or field of study was expensive and difficult to realize on today's computer, you could just stand still for a year or two and a much faster computer would park itself on your doorstep, ready to solve your problems. 15/ 1571
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026When Moore's Law tapped out - when the pace at which transistors got smaller and computers got faster slowed and plateaued, and the expense of even modest performance gains climbed infinitywards - computing changed with it. 16/ 3611
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026Parallel computing - putting more cores on a chip, more chips on a board, more boards in a system - took off, as chipmakers and system builders switched from a focus on building their computers tall to building them *wide*. 17/ 1492
Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I'd argue that p2p computing was huge in this too, torrenting to overcome network/hardware bottlenecks, etc. All the hacks to overcome the limitations of early internet hardware. 061
Blaireau Câlin @schmorgluck.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Especially since there never was a serious industy-wide effort to push back against Wirth's Law. 000
