This feels more like something that will be eventually sold to billionaires, people wealthy enough to own and operate their own $50-100 million aircraft. The noise regs meant that a billionaire couldn't do supersonic travel to most places even though he could afford the plane. Get the noise down and now those supersonic business jets can be built, sold and operated pretty much worldwide.
Anyone who grew up watching over-the-air analog TV knows that television can be enjoyed with a picture and signal far worse than even the most pissant phone provides today. I watched a whole season of a program on a video iPod, just because the thing was portable and handy. Video and sound quality were both better than what I grew up with. For one thing, the picture was in color.
Feed a dog and he'll never bite you. That's the difference between a dog and a man.
The question really is ill-posed. Even without infinite storage, infinite computation collapses the polynomial hierarchy. P = NP, P = PH and in fact P = PSPACE. You could fairly quickly boostrap your way to an AI that would let you describe (in natural language!) the actions you wanted the computer to take and have the computer either write the program or perform the actions directly. No clever programming needed during the bootstrapping, just brute force searches in polynomial space will be fast enough given an infinitely fast computer.
It's what Microsoft always does. The only reason they haven't embraced and extinguished interoperability on the Internet is that they were late arriving at that particular party. Nonetheless they made quite a go of it, particularly in the e-mail space in the 1990's. Slapdash implementations of POP, IMAP, (E)SMTP, MIME... to administer a mail system in those days was to suffer.
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol