Moore’s law will peter out and everyone will be forced to squeeze out more performance out of existing hardware. The tide will turn hard against “the cloud” wh

Moore’s law will peter out and everyone will be forced to squeeze out more performance out of existing hardware. The tide will turn hard against “the cloud” when companies figure out their cloud spend is many times worse than their own data centres cost them. There may be a new wave of “lean” cloud systems. Fast programming languages will be in vogue again once the wastefulness of things like Ruby/Erlang is finally understood.