Interesting comment, but you&#x27;re missing a critical reason we can&#x27;t go straight for the goalpost - we don&#x27;t know where it is! Yes, our computation architecture is sub-optimal for the situation we find ourselves in, but we only know that now because we&#x27;re here, and these things take a long long time to make it from idea to usable hardware.<p>Sooner or later computation will have been around for long enough that everything will settle on a common boring architecture (how much steam engine innovation has there been recently?) but until then we&#x27;ll always be using the systems designed to solve the problems of 10-15 years ago.<p>To paraphrase Rumsfeld, you don&#x27;t build on the platform you want, you build on the platform you have.