Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation
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The bottleneck of the computer age is not compute, but ideas for how to use it.
Ryan Searle/Aerial photography of parking lot This article by Charles Rosenbauer was published at Palladium Magazine on July 31, 2026. Become a PALLADIUM member today! You will receive our beautiful quarterly print edition and help support our non-profit publication. For less than a thousand dollars, a modern consumer laptop may be capable of trillions of calculations per second. But consumers’ applications of this hardware are often disappointing. Many are products of Wirth’s law, the observation that over time, software gets less efficient faster than hardware gets more efficient. The…
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