When you extend the term “software”: Maybe Darwin’s ideas? They also existed long before the public caught on. They also were then widely discussed in newspaper

When you extend the term “software”: Maybe Darwin’s ideas? They also existed long before the public caught on. They also were then widely discussed in newspapers and books. Shook society at the core. And attracted lots of charlatans who abused them to bolster their own unsubstantiated conclusions. It’s not quite that magnitude yet. But the direction seems close.