Atoms move at atom speed
Digital content scales because failure is free. A million unread blog posts cost nothing but server space. But physical products demand validation before production. Unsold inventory is real money rotting in warehouses. Shelf space is finite. You can’t A/B test chip flavours the way you test headlines. The physical world has irreducible constraints that compress the infinite back down to the manageable. AI speeds up the digital. The atoms still move at atom speed.