Beyond the social aspects, it's been such an unbelievable ride surfing that exponential growth in computing power, from maxing out a 100mhz Pentium1 in assembly

Beyond the social aspects, it's been such an unbelievable ride surfing that exponential growth in computing power, from maxing out a 100mhz Pentium1 in assembly language, to maxing out my 4090 in PTX. I still know the cache sizes, clock speeds, instruction latencies and sometimes even hex opcodes etc for every CPU/GPU along the way, and I don't think we'll see such a wild ride again (hard to go double-exponential). Truly privileged to have been born at that exact time, and in the "West" (well, South Africa... so -5 years compared to the American/European experience).