I’d say the biggest problem we have with computers these days is outrageously bloated and buggy code. MS-Windows has been a notorious example of that for a long time, but it’s also getting really bad in the Linux world as well for the past decade. I’m darn close to abandoning KDE for my desktop, since it has really become a bloated mess. I have an i9 CPU with 16 cores and 32GB of ram, and find it hard to believe how bad things have gotten.
I agree with the premise of the article that Moore’s Law is pretty much dead, until a major change is made to the architecture. The incremental improvements in hardware are nothing like we saw in years past. It would also be nice if programmers started taking SMP into acount when writing software. Seems like most of the time my CPUs are idle. Might have 1 or 2 threads actually using the CPU, but not as much as you’d think.
I just want my ESC key back!