I use to explain it this way: nowadays, bits and bytes are everywhere, most everybody you know has a notion of what a `megabyte` is. But this is a shockingly re

I use to explain it this way: nowadays, bits and bytes are everywhere, most everybody you know has a notion of what a `megabyte` is. But this is a shockingly recent idea. My grandma was 20 when a guy named Claude Shannon in 1949 invented/popularized the concept of a "bit" and described what information is, the way Newton described matter and how to model physics with mathematics. Really, "information" was a just vague concept until Shannon and this was just 70 years ago!!1 It's only natural that a lack of generations of craftsmanship in this industry makes it pretty low quality/hard to master. On the other hand, imagination is the limiting reagent, since (arguably) the bottleneck is good ideas, specially with all these decades of Moore's law.