There's something almost rhythmic about it—take any technology that seems absolutely unstoppable, absolutely permanent, and wait around 20 years. That's when everything shifts.
Think about the numbers behind it. Two decades isn't just a long time; it's the difference between where compute and network bandwidth are today and where they'll be then. We're talking 1000x improvement. Not incremental. Not marginal. A thousand times more powerful.
Here's where it gets wild: try imagining what actually becomes possible at that scale. Most of us can't. The infrastructure we're building today will look like bicycle infrastructure compared to what's coming. The bottlenecks we're fighting now—latency, throughput, scalability—might become footnotes in some future technical history.
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SorryRugPulled
· 2h ago
The infrastructure of today in 20 years will be a joke; a 1000x difference in computing power will directly crush it.
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TeaTimeTrader
· 5h ago
1000x in 20 years sounds pretty scary. By then, the current technical architecture will really become antique.
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faded_wojak.eth
· 5h ago
The 20-year cycle is a well-known topic. The real question is who will live to see the day when a 1000x scene unfolds.
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NotFinancialAdvice
· 6h ago
A cycle of 20 years, this statement has some weight.
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A 1000x increase in computing power sounds a bit crazy, but can you really imagine what the world will be like then?
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Looking back at the current infrastructure after 20 years, it really will be like bike lanes haha.
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So the bottlenecks we care about now will probably be forgotten in the future.
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The analogy of sense of rhythm is quite interesting; technology is always overturning itself.
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The key is that most people really can't imagine it, and that's the most interesting part.
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Upgrades to underlying infrastructure always exceed expectations; we underestimate too many things.
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MergeConflict
· 6h ago
A cycle every 20 years sounds quite metaphysical.
A 1000x performance boost? Today's infrastructure, in the future, will be like bike lanes—nice to say, but who can really imagine such a leap?
But on the other hand, every time I see these "bright future" narratives, most people end up using roughly the same things, just with a different shell.
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LiquidityNinja
· 6h ago
A 20-year cycle. The current infrastructure will be a joke in the future.
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BloodInStreets
· 6h ago
The infrastructure you're now frantically building will become bike lanes in 20 years. That's a bit ironic.
There's something almost rhythmic about it—take any technology that seems absolutely unstoppable, absolutely permanent, and wait around 20 years. That's when everything shifts.
Think about the numbers behind it. Two decades isn't just a long time; it's the difference between where compute and network bandwidth are today and where they'll be then. We're talking 1000x improvement. Not incremental. Not marginal. A thousand times more powerful.
Here's where it gets wild: try imagining what actually becomes possible at that scale. Most of us can't. The infrastructure we're building today will look like bicycle infrastructure compared to what's coming. The bottlenecks we're fighting now—latency, throughput, scalability—might become footnotes in some future technical history.