&gt; Today 16 gigabytes of RAM costs $100 and CPUs come with many cores, each with multiple hardware threads. In a decade this hardware will seem quaint.<p>This is a potentially dangerous worldview. While it is true for the server&#x2F;desktop&#x2F;laptop segment, it is less of a surety for phones, and downright scary for smaller, low-power embedded&#x2F;IoT devices.