It wasn't intended to be. The point is that in those circumstances when we were expanding the resources we had been accustomed to there were many people who sa

It wasn't intended to be. The point is that in those circumstances when we were expanding the resources we had been accustomed to there were many people who said we'd never use them. Disk space is another. However, the commoditization of a resource or the elimination of its scarcity invites us to use the resource in a way that would have seemed wasteful previously and perhaps may have blocked certain use cases before. The games industry has been loved and subsidized for driving consumption of resources up to drive new hardware adoption. Another example of this is disk space where it's reduction in cost has driven changes in the industry. Think of NoSql and other shifts due to the reduction in cost of storage.