I would argue that China is not a global superpower. It lacks both hard and soft power for this status. Their conventional force projection capabilities are pitiful and culturally, the increasingly nationalist and restrictive dictatorship is unable to exert more influence than many small nations.

I feel like I’ve read predictions like this one a million times since the 1990s…

I’ve seen some early demonstrations of this, like this one from three years ago that makes GTA V look photoreal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IcaBn3ej0

The potential of this tech is enormous. Imagine an alternative to RTX Remix that turns any game into a near photoreal experience. Genres like simulations and racing games - which tend to attempt photorealism instead of creative art styles anyway, are primarily featuring inanimate objects (avoiding most of the uncanny valley that way) and could be transformed with models based on relatively limited training data - would be ideal at first.

That’s how new GPU generations have been pushed for as long as GPUs have existed.

And no there is no overengineering of GPUs. You don’t want stagnation or underwhelming to nonexistent jumps as with other tech products, like smartphones, do you?

Interesting. This is good news for modders though, because this means that combining cells (similar to mods for previous Bethesda games) should be straightforward, even on current hardware.

Because everyone likes a redemption ark. For as much as Pitchfork is a dick, his studio has plenty of good games under its belt. Dismissing them entirely because of one game you didn’t like is rather foolish.

I just wish the drivers were better.

Do your elderly family members belong to the aforementioned group of most basic users?

No, it can’t, because it is not even remotely as user friendly - and even if it was, the mere fact that its user experience is extremely different makes a switch quite difficult to anyone but the most basic users (who need little more than a web browser).