What might degrowth computing look like?

I note that new computing devices consume less energy for more computing power.

So all things being equal, it's best to replace old hardware with new hardware, since that reduces energy consumption.

Or it's best to replace old hardware with new hardware, since that will give you more computing for the same energy.

The ecological thing to do is therefore to get new computing hardware!!!

Until, of course, no progress can be made on computing hardware efficiency or energy use, but we are certainly far from the limit.

On a more theorical point of view, the best computing device is no computing device. Ie. the biological solution. Instead of _building_ computers, let's _grow_ computers, or already, just better use the computer we have in our brains! Biological computers are already way more efficient than artificial computers, and they're bio-degradable. Of course, the problem is that you need 20 or 50 years to build and program them, you'll have to give something for this degrowth fad.

Eventually, we'll just build everything in space, and drop the required product down to Earth (but probably not, Earth will be a degrowthed natural reserve, and the technological civilization will live and prosper in space).