The price of the PCs and the consoles has shot. A high -end Nvidia card is worth three times more than before the pandemic, and a PS5 costs more expensive than when it was launched almost five years ago. And we have already talked about the new Nintendo Switch 2 and its games at 90 euros. For John Carmack, we would not have to change so often hardware, yes The software will be optimized.
The reflection starts from a curious proposal of a Google researcher named Laurie, who proposed in X the following: What would happen if humanity forgot how to make a CPU? What if, from Zero Day, you have to survive only with existing CPUs?
Laurie speculates what would happen in the next 30 years, and John Carmack has signed up for the game.
Hardware sin: poorly optimized software
According to Laurie’s vision, if suddenly, processors were manufactured, during the first year the prices of existing computers and mobiles would shoot. Since heat and high consumption favor failures, users would reduce the voltage of their CPU and invest in refrigeration to extend their life cycle.
In three years the black market of processors would be as persecuted as that of drugs. Xeon processors would be worth more than gold, and governments would prioritize computers for energy, communications and military.
In 7 years, mobile phones would begin to fail for fatigue of welds, and the old «dumb» cars, those who do not need chips to work, would shoot their price.
After 15 years, the Internet almost no longer works. Only rich and privileged can access through private satellite connections. Meanwhile, there is a clandestine network that passes information by SSD. Many of the remaining hard drives have died.
In 30 years, almost all hardware with small nodes has broken down. The old processors who use large, most resistant nodes are the most sought after.
The IMAC G3 become work stations for the elite, and the people of the street resort to condition the Hardware of the Gameboy, the Macintosh SE, and the Commodore 64. Technologically, we would have retreated 80 years, until the 70s or 80s of the twentieth century.
In this terrifying dystopian future is where John Carmack intervenes, the creator of Doom, Quakethe first ID graphic engines, the graphic technology of the Metal Quest Virtual Virtual Glasses, and much more:
«I have also carried out this fun mental experiment! A majority of the world of what many imagine could work with obsolete hardware if the Software optimization It really was a priority, and the market price signals with little computing would make it possible, «says Carmack.
This link directly to the current situation, where Software optimization, at all levels, is a disaster. Windows 11 has very high memory requirements, 4 GB, when it should be almost transparent. Modern games do not work at 30 fps with a 2,000 euro card, and need AI technologies such as DLSS or the generation of framesto function properly.
This bad software optimization causes people to renew the hardware sooner, contributing to the increase in prices.
What the current PC and consoles market needs is better optimizing the software. This could work in older hardware, as he says John Carmackthe creator of Doom. Unfortunately, no one intends to make it reality.
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