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> cpu time & memory are close to free Not for 3 billion people. Also energy is not free at all.

• dahart 10y ago
  Right yes, I know, and it's a great point. Global economics and third world access to computing & the internet are in a completely different time zone from I was talking about. But you're right, and on the global scale, we may actually be doing the equivalent of churning butter with jets. I totally wouldn't be surprised if the sum total energy expenditure on all computers in the world was greater than on all the aircraft in the world... and we are most definitely wasting the vast majority of the energy we use on computation. Still, in my defense, I said close to free, and compared to the cost of a 787, cpu time & memory are closer to free than jets, no matter who we're talking about, right?