Peter Thiel has a bit on this: In the 1920s-1970 the WORLD OF ATOMS™ had insane innovations, to the point where it was a different world at the end. Every sing

Peter Thiel has a bit on this: In the 1920s-1970 the WORLD OF ATOMS™ had insane innovations, to the point where it was a different world at the end. Every single appliance in your kitchen got invented and became ubiquitous. Since the 1970s, the only innovations have come from the WORLD OF BITS™ (drastically increasing transistor count, network speed, etc). But atoms have stagnated.