[BoredAstronaut]

Most big problems cannot be solved, except theoretically, with information processing. In other words, software and computer networks and data mining and such will not actually solve the problem, although it might begin to provide some insight. Real problems are physical, and require physical things (like people and machines and other stuff) to solve them. It is also much harder to scale physical solutions, although software can also help. Whereas, you can often solve the whole problem if it is made of information, and you can throw enough CPUs and algorithms at it.