That might be so but it would take months or years to get everything switched over. And we are not even talking about how long it will take to retrain all government personel to use the new systems.
Sure the increase isn't as massive as it was but it is definetly a very noticeable increase in performance if you come fro m a 6700k but if you are running an Amd 5800 or an intel 12700, the performance increase is not worth the money.
Sure you can run a perfectly useable machine from 10 years ago but there is a massive difference in performance between an ryzen 9600 based system and an ryzen 1600 system.
I do agree with you that performance increase are nowhere as fast as it used to be. But we were also stuck with 4 core intel cpu's for a decade before that.
The fact is though the average person is starting to replace their search engine with chatgpt, gemini, grok or whatever other llm and I have seen more and more small association using generative ai to make their posters instead of working with artist or doing it themselves.
I might be wrong but I think this might be more of a failing of the US education system than an across the board decline world wide. Although I do think millenials but much more so Gen Z and Alpha are adversly affected by social media than the generations before by tv.
I actually do conversions on the regular but than again I live in Europe so I use the metric system and all conversions are base 10 so it is super easy.
Take distance for example:
That might be so but it would take months or years to get everything switched over. And we are not even talking about how long it will take to retrain all government personel to use the new systems.