What's insane is how cheap all those components are. A quadcore processor with ram and memory, WiFi and Bluetooth for pennies at wholesale.

The latest and fastest GPUs might be a marvel of technology, but so is the tech that let's us make and esp32 for almost nothing

I guess at this point it’s safe to assume humanity won’t regress to a time before computers anymore.

Imagine a beowulf cluster of... wait probably not

yeah, in 1992 we ran Doom on a 386DX 20Mhz and 320x200 VGA mode :-D

(and it was slooooow and ugly!)