>>20944643The lecture I mentioned before was from some guy working for an open source foundation and it was incredibly helpful.
Basically these days we have so much processing power that people are working on developing new file formats and codecs that reduce file size at the expense of computational power required to reconstruct the information.
>>20944644We do a lot less with a lot more, we have better tools and just bash them like hammers.
The divide between the common man and the world around him is something I want to write an essay about.
It wasn't that long ago that people could buy a fridge or TV or even an 8 bit computer and feasibly understand exactly how it works and repair or build it from scratch from its constituent components.
This simply isn't the world we live in any more, which creates a huge disconnect between people and technology.
For most people modern technology is a black box powered by magic, yet some of them feel smart just for knowing how to operate the black box.
