All What Is Delicious to Man

An expectation of abundance breeds profligacy, a willingness to waste things. An expectation of scarcity breeds frugality, a concern with using things judiciously.

Makes me wonder: What can bring an expectation of scarcity to the way we build on the web?

Don’t worry about all the energy we’re sucking into our data centers, because our data centers are going to make energy free. Don’t worry about all the money we’re amassing, because we’re going to make everyone prosperous. Don’t worry about all the time you spend looking into the screens we’ve given you, because through those screens lies paradise.

Remember when one of the arguments for “going digital” was its eco-friendly nature? “Think of all the trees you’ll save!” Now we have AI companies that want to go nuclear for power.