I agree - however, that has mostly been a feeling for me for years. Things feel fast enough and fine.
This page is a nice reminder of the fact, with numbers. For a while, at least, I will Know, instead of just feel, like I can ignore the low level performance minutiae.
As the newcomer to the, very entrenched, block, I think the memristor has a lot of momentum to overcome. In a EE undergrad (2007, so it has been a bit) we spent plenty of time understanding resistors, capacitors, and inductors. We looked at example circuits and uses, we learned the math and theory... We developed intuition around them.
Memristors were the missing fourth, and "imagine what you could do with that!" My imagination did not extend very far. Everything was being built with those other three and the non-linear components.
It'll take a while to overcome that momentum.
I feel like IPv6 has a similar barrier. I'm mostly an infosec nerd and I've been through a lot of training and education. Never once seen IPv6 treated beyond, "it has more bytes, firewall it off".
Programming a computer is a way of thinking. It in some ways involves the same thinking as determining how to break down a mechanical manufacturing process, or parts of team management (sport or industry), or legal arguments, or considering how biology works.
Basic logic is part of this, as is process decomposition, as is just learning a new way of communicating and many other things.
Learning new ways of thinking makes us flexible individuals. It fosters creativity. These are skills we all need in society, but the modern economy especially.
This is actually, I think, a compelling argument (aimed at adults who are deciding what children will do, less so the children themselves) for almost any subject.
Unfortunately just like putting "democratic" in your country name - if you have to put "freedom" in your name it's a good sign you are going for anything but.
This page is a nice reminder of the fact, with numbers. For a while, at least, I will Know, instead of just feel, like I can ignore the low level performance minutiae.