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