That assumes prices will eventually fall. I think that’s more likely after the bubble pops, yes, but wealth concentration and corporate AI concentration, combined with government subsidy if they are too big to fail, could work together to permanently inflate prices.
In the worst outcome, you won’t have to boycott them because consumer computing will have effectively died from ever-rising prices. In that future, the only hardware you’ll be able to afford is a thin-client (let’s be extra grim, subsidized by ads) that almost fully runs on corporate-owned cloud compute.
At best we’re probably in for at least 1-2 years of rising GPU, CPU, RAM, SSD and HDD prices while AI consumes everything.
That assumes prices will eventually fall. I think that’s more likely after the bubble pops, yes, but wealth concentration and corporate AI concentration, combined with government subsidy if they are too big to fail, could work together to permanently inflate prices.
In the worst outcome, you won’t have to boycott them because consumer computing will have effectively died from ever-rising prices. In that future, the only hardware you’ll be able to afford is a thin-client (let’s be extra grim, subsidized by ads) that almost fully runs on corporate-owned cloud compute.
At best we’re probably in for at least 1-2 years of rising GPU, CPU, RAM, SSD and HDD prices while AI consumes everything.