This is the case for pretty much every other invention. It is, but that was because far fewer people were well educated so they didn't really see the need, and

This is the case for pretty much every other invention. It is, but that was because far fewer people were well educated so they didn't really see the need, and innovations tended to be physical objects that can only travel as far and as fast as the transport of the time will take them. Today most people in the developed world are very well educated (relative to the 1600s) and things based on computers travel at pretty much the speed of light. Things, particularly in tech, obviously move faster now.