If you are in SV, it can seem like the world is moving very fast (and within SV, the number of things that people are trying and call "technology" is much large

If you are in SV, it can seem like the world is moving very fast (and within SV, the number of things that people are trying and call "technology" is much larger than the number of things that people outside SV either want or need). But we are still at a very early stage of the "computer age". We have definitely seen a small transition towards more modern ways of working but the process is still very far from complete. And a lot of this is very prosaic. It isn't about designing some world-beating technology but finding stuff that works and doing it well. Neither of these tasks are particularly straightforward either, knowing what to do is usually not a big problem in business, knowing how to do it is far more difficult problem (ironically, tech is probably one of the best examples of this). Just generally: believing in constant progress, believing in the mystical power of technology are common psychological habits of humans (Marxism, to name an example)...but it wasn't any easier to make technological discoveries two centuries ago. Literally, these people had none of the knowledge we had today, there was no way to share information, the barriers were huge. Innovation has never been easier.