True, but right now, programmers often aren't even using what we have available to us very efficiently. There are a few- a select few- who are making supercomputing systems more efficient, but by and large we have a long, long way to go.
Furthermore, the things that have 'changed everything' in the last few years are all user interface related. As we get better at human speech recognition and creation, that will be when things truly are wholly changed.
However, one thing I do have to ask those who know better than me: Does the Landauer Limit imply that we won't be able to optimize any further, at a certain point, in terms of hardware capability? And would this include optimizing for size? In other words, if we hit that limit with something the size of Watson, could we reasonably still expect it to reach the size of a cell phone, half a century after that?
Furthermore, the things that have 'changed everything' in the last few years are all user interface related. As we get better at human speech recognition and creation, that will be when things truly are wholly changed.
However, one thing I do have to ask those who know better than me: Does the Landauer Limit imply that we won't be able to optimize any further, at a certain point, in terms of hardware capability? And would this include optimizing for size? In other words, if we hit that limit with something the size of Watson, could we reasonably still expect it to reach the size of a cell phone, half a century after that?