[layer8]

It used to be slower in software development as well. The internet and the exponentially increasing number of software developers accelerated it. And of course new hardware that made things practical that were only a theoretical possibility before.

[kator]

True, that said, I downloaded and compiled Perl in 1987 from comp.sources.misc, even back then, things moved at light speed compared to health and medical.

[MarceliusK]

A lot of "rapid adoption" in software is really the result of unusually cheap distribution and feedback loops