That's the underappreciated truth of the computer revolution in practice. At scale, computers didn't change the world because they did things that were already

That's the underappreciated truth of the computer revolution in practice. At scale, computers didn't change the world because they did things that were already being computed, more quickly. They changed the world because they decreased the cost of computing so much that it could be used for an entirely new class of problems. (That computing cost previously precluded its use on)