The one saving grace we have with the elites is it is simply physically impossible to implement what they want in every single area. They'll certainly attempt it in the cities but there are going to be so many problems with the practicalities and the logistics it's going to fall over.
It's more of an issue of technological stagnation imo. The whole AI craze has made people oblivious to the fact that hardware isn't improving at the rate it once was. Newer chips are more expensive and power hungry, yet they offer less and less improvement over the previous generation.
If Moore's law still applied, then the logistics would be trivial, as the cost would halve every 2 years or so.
On that note, I subscribe to Wirth's law saying software is getting worse faster than hardware is getting better. So much software is just bloated and wasteful these days. I think it will accelerate with AI calls to the cloud, and I hope the bottleneck will make it unmanageable for blanket deployment (though cities are probably fucked as others have noted)
It's more of an issue of technological stagnation imo. The whole AI craze has made people oblivious to the fact that hardware isn't improving at the rate it once was. Newer chips are more expensive and power hungry, yet they offer less and less improvement over the previous generation.
If Moore's law still applied, then the logistics would be trivial, as the cost would halve every 2 years or so.
On that note, I subscribe to Wirth's law saying software is getting worse faster than hardware is getting better. So much software is just bloated and wasteful these days. I think it will accelerate with AI calls to the cloud, and I hope the bottleneck will make it unmanageable for blanket deployment (though cities are probably fucked as others have noted)