Remember the "3M" computer ideal? Mega-Herz, Megabyte, Megapixel, for speed, memory, screen, to make up a new capability of workstation? https://en.wikipedia.o

Remember the "3M" computer ideal? Mega-Herz, Megabyte, Megapixel, for speed, memory, screen, to make up a new capability of workstation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M_computer I now think the next target ought to be latency and power defined, in particular with IOT requirements. Microseconds, Milliwatts, Millions of endpoints. or, for storage, Microseconds, Millions IOPS, Multi-Parity or for computer, efficiency, IOT goals: Milli-watts as a constraint for a benchmark of compute Millions of endpoints / processes or cores on a network topology Microseconds as a measure generically of access to resources, whether memory is sat on another node, or local store, the delay ought to be inside the same order of magnitude as a target. My purpose in all of that, is, should there - in fact, can there be - consideration of architecture and topology that avoid .. rather can we aim for linear cost in addressing complexity at all, as a goal, or has that been lost already? I mean "that" and "lost" very vaguely, being non expert, but my question is really should I imagine that there are no effective gains to be had, designing for a IOT style or massively networked future, from the way memory is addressed, or has the complexity that we have, been introduced out of necessity, so will be here to stay, for practical reasons, so the idea of low latency, low power, IOT "grid computing" on a ad hoc basis, is smoke in my pipe?