[cultofmetatron]

>just an efficiency increase has ended up having profound impact on society.

truer words haven't been spoken. one big one off the top of my mind was the us governments decision to allow civillians to access gps at the same resolution as the arms. with that, all sorts of applications that require realtime location tracking. uber, lyft, rappi, gojeck off the top of my head.

[fragmede]

More fundamentally, the telegraph was "just" a more efficient way to send messages over sending a message via pony express, and the Internet evolved from there.