alt Hacker NewsElectricity might be a good analogy - but for the other side of this argument.
In the US, (nearly) full electrification wasn't achieved until the late 1940's/early 1950's - a process of nearly a century. (A moment of personal trivia, my great grandfather worked on crews electrifying rural areas of the midwest.)
We already have SOTA local inference devices in everyone’s pocket, which also provide high bandwidth access to SOTA data center inference at what is rapidly becoming commodity pricing.
What comparable gap is there to bridge?