{"id":229712,"date":"2026-01-24T05:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/legendary-doom-developer-john-carmack-theorizes-that-the-worlds-tech-could-run-on-outdated-hardware-if-it-was-properly-optimized"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:11:10","slug":"legendary-doom-developer-john-carmack-theorizes-that-the-worlds-tech-could-run-on-outdated-hardware-if-it-was-properly-optimized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/legendary-doom-developer-john-carmack-theorizes-that-the-worlds-tech-could-run-on-outdated-hardware-if-it-was-properly-optimized","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Doom developer John Carmack theorizes that the world\u2019s tech could run on outdated hardware if it was properly optimized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/legendary-doom-developer-john-carmack-theorizes-that-the-worlds-tech-could-run-on-outdated-hardware-if-it-was-properly-optimized.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Id Software co-founder and programmer John Carmack shared a theory that if \u201eoptimization was truly a priority\u2026 modern tech could run on outdated hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Id Software co-founder and programmer John Carmack shared a theory that if \u201eoptimization was truly a priority\u2026 modern tech could run on outdated hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}