> I think the financial incentives are already there to consider computational resources precious. I'd argue we ARE already working with computational resource

> I think the financial incentives are already there to consider computational resources precious. I'd argue we ARE already working with computational resources as precious commodities. If you are in an area where it matters, you consider the logistics of acquiring, retaining, and utilizing all of your CPU and memory. It's precisely this that fed the rise of AWS. So, do we need a new economy putting pricing on these resources? No! We already have it. We're just shocked at how cheap it is. But why shouldn't it be? You're messing with virtual realities where it's possible to teleport objects from one side of the universe to the other at almost no cost. Compare that with the friction of moving a real world object to the other side of your house. Thermodynamics apply. I'm pretty tired of navel gazing about the efficiency of computing when it was invented as a mechanism to increase the efficiency of the CRITICALLY inefficient systems. Your smartphone and its code are not the bottleneck in the world system. Stop optimizing the wrong parts.