So, your conjecture is that physics will continue, but our appetite for new features will plateau? I don't buy that, personally; in fact I think it is exactly the opposite. I want a calendar program that is smarter than me, I want search that understands my tastes in restaurants, shoes, books. I want sw that immediately translates, perfectly and idiomatically, any language. I want to talk to my phone. I want it to compose music for me. I want a pony (okay, that last one is a different list).
Now, we do know one limit - the human brain fits in an X sized area, and requires Y sized plumbing and energy store to accomplish what it does. My feature requests exceeds what any one brain can do. I'd be astonished if we could shrink that to phone sized, but maybe, just maybe.
At that time we can renew this conversation. Until then, burning batteries, and running data centers, matters. Until then, C (or a safer version thereof) matters.
Now, we do know one limit - the human brain fits in an X sized area, and requires Y sized plumbing and energy store to accomplish what it does. My feature requests exceeds what any one brain can do. I'd be astonished if we could shrink that to phone sized, but maybe, just maybe.
At that time we can renew this conversation. Until then, burning batteries, and running data centers, matters. Until then, C (or a safer version thereof) matters.