Technology Future

Tech Will Have to Slow Down: Depleted Resources, Bloated Software, and the Return of Low-Level Languages

We’ve been sold the idea that technology is infinite. Servers everywhere. Applications bigger, richer, faster. AI for everything. Unlimited cloud. Just add RAM, add cores, add datacenters.

Except the resources that power all of this are not infinite.

And what nobody in the tech industry wants to say out loud is that we are going to have to slow down. Not because we want to. Because we won’t have a choice.