I think it’s fine to look on the bright side, as the “bad thing“ in this case seems to be something we’re stuck with.

It simply isn’t possible to make transistors infinitesimally small (just as a horse’s metabolism could never keep up with the relativistic muscle movements required for faster than light travel.)

Sure, that sucks. But realistically, the only way to progress is to design better architectures, or think of new computing paradigms, or deepen our understanding of the laws of nature.

All of those, if realized, could be very good things.

I sometimes get bummed out about the end of Moore’s law, but I try to remind myself to be grateful and appreciate what we have. Computers are wonderful, and it’s amazing that we have them at all: the universe didn’t owe us computing; we figured it out in order to solve problems. Now we have another big problem to solve.

Ultimately, we will see huge investments in pushing the boundaries of computing. Whether it’s biological, quantum, or just massively parallel, I’m excited to see what we can come up with in the years ahead.