Re: In twenty years...
"As H/W gets faster should the balance change?"
No, because increased speed forces a focus on performance. Physics gets in the way: a little problem called the Speed of Electricity (measured as a fraction of c). To put things in perspective, a photon, given only 1 nanosecond, can only travel (at most) 30cm. Electricity's limit is going to be somewhat lower than that, and at this point we're still only talking theoretically. And BTW, the performance demands I'm talking have nothing to do with UI. This is to-the-metal, pure hardware issues here. How else can you keep a 40Gbps (or faster) link fed without choking somewhere from sheer physics?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
