Data used to be sent on physical media, and moving the physical media had significant friction.

· Bits and Bobs 7/7/25
  • Data used to be sent on physical media, and moving the physical media had significant friction.
    • You'd print words in a book and then ship the book.
    • When data moved to the plane of entirely bits it got orders of magnitude faster.
      • We divorced information from atoms.
    • We saw much more aggregation much faster.
      • The same dynamic as before, just playing out orders of magnitude faster.