The Industrial Return of Compute Scarcity

Every generation of abundant software creates a new physical bottleneck. In this cycle, it is compute infrastructure, power delivery, and the specialized labor required to maintain both.

The important question is not whether the system is changing, but which assumptions remain useful while it does.

The research archive is intentionally text-first. External references are linked rather than stored, preserving fast reads and modest database costs while keeping every source legible to the reader.

That constraint is not an aesthetic compromise. It is a discipline: preserve the argument, the date, the relevant model, and the source path.