Interesting comment, but you're missing a critical reason we can't go straight for the goalpost - we don't know where it is! Yes, our computation architecture i

Interesting comment, but you're missing a critical reason we can't go straight for the goalpost - we don't know where it is! Yes, our computation architecture is sub-optimal for the situation we find ourselves in, but we only know that now because we're here, and these things take a long long time to make it from idea to usable hardware. Sooner or later computation will have been around for long enough that everything will settle on a common boring architecture (how much steam engine innovation has there been recently?) but until then we'll always be using the systems designed to solve the problems of 10-15 years ago. To paraphrase Rumsfeld, you don't build on the platform you want, you build on the platform you have.