And why AI might finally slow us back down. There was a time when running a process meant you could go make a sandwich. Back in the day, computing was slow. You’d start a program, watch the progress bar crawl, maybe hear the hard drive click like a heartbeat, and then… you waited. Compiling code? Go grab lunch. Rendering a video? See you in the morning. Early computing was a Zen garden of patience and progress wheels. Then we got impatient.We wanted faster chips, shorter wait