Indeed, there's never been a positive correlation between saving energy and improving human progress. If there will be, now is not that time. We truly need cle

Indeed, there's never been a positive correlation between saving energy and improving human progress. If there will be, now is not that time. We truly need clean, plentiful energy, too cheap to meter. We will still research power-savings techniques, but not so that we can save on energy, but so we can pack compute machinery denser. My personal sci-fi imagination/dream is that we gain enough energy that we start beaming waste energy into space, if only because it'd be a really cool problem to have :) If we could start actively cooling the planet where needed.