Technology Future

The true cost of AI: who is really paying the difference?

$20 a month for AI is a subsidy, not a price. Here is what the official figures say about the real cost of each query, and what is about to change.

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.