@tinker 2020 really changed some folk, made them terribly afraid of something... death, personal legacies, that wealth cannot protect them from nature. Whatever it is driving them, their little paranoias became our problem and now we have to deal with their brainworms as they try to speedrun the heat death of Earth.

We have reached a solid plateau in processing power, we can push further but we don't need to if we just make code lighter and processors more efficient.