Bytes are just much more tractable, that's the root of the opportunity/problem. And nothing happened in the world of atoms, it's just that the first somewhat u

Bytes are just much more tractable, that's the root of the opportunity/problem. And nothing happened in the world of atoms, it's just that the first somewhat useful things spawned by the world of bytes appeared in the mid-70s or so and, bytes being so much more tractable, capital and intellectual energy started flowing to that world in massive amounts.