mass consumption of virtual goods (software) seems to produce less waste than the mass consumption of physical goods. I read that bitcoin produces more CO2 tha

mass consumption of virtual goods (software) seems to produce less waste than the mass consumption of physical goods. I read that bitcoin produces more CO2 than the global aviation industry... https://jalopnik.com/bitcoins-annual-carbon-footprint-is-equal-to-one-millio-1828460235 https://jalopnik.com/bitcoins-annual-carbon-footprint-is-equ... Your mission is to write software that's so good that people do not need to upgrade their hardware. Email, word processing, the vast majority of commercial workloads, would work fine on machines with a tiny fraction of the typical PCs power today. But developers insist on using godawful “frameworks” to do the most trivial things. Like JS based text editors that take gigs of RAM to do less useful stuff than Emacs could do in megs. The PC of the future is something like an RPi with an eInk display with a solar panel on the other side.