By ending, they are absolutely referring to it slowing down. It probably means we're worse off, in that spending on software engineering to get gains rather th

By ending, they are absolutely referring to it slowing down. It probably means we're worse off, in that spending on software engineering to get gains rather than expecting it out of new hardware processes will almost certainly be more expensive. On the other hand, software gains give us more computing with the same energy which is a good thing for the planet.