Perhaps. I’ve recently watched a video on historical coins and the quality of relief.
Things like Athenian tetradrachm were very rare, and thus done properly. The more and more numerous recognizable coins had to be (inflation ; for much of history in much of the world old or foreign money would be valid currency), the simpler were the designs. Medieval European mints had to make such amounts of coins, that they were very simple and streamlined.
So what this has to do with computing - building something in an empty place works differently than replacing\changing something in the middle of an old city. When computers were new, things worked differently than now, economically and socially.
It’s possible that when this settles into something more stable, normal amounts of RAM for personal computers will again be in megabytes.
And developers will make their shitty apps more resource-efficient, right? RIGHT!?
Perhaps. I’ve recently watched a video on historical coins and the quality of relief.
Things like Athenian tetradrachm were very rare, and thus done properly. The more and more numerous recognizable coins had to be (inflation ; for much of history in much of the world old or foreign money would be valid currency), the simpler were the designs. Medieval European mints had to make such amounts of coins, that they were very simple and streamlined.
So what this has to do with computing - building something in an empty place works differently than replacing\changing something in the middle of an old city. When computers were new, things worked differently than now, economically and socially.
It’s possible that when this settles into something more stable, normal amounts of RAM for personal computers will again be in megabytes.