I'm not sure that's right. The "changes in tech" can be regarded as almost continuous (in the same way as a gas is made up of discrete particles, but can still be treated as a continuous medium because there are so many particles).

And human understanding of tech is discrete - nobody understands "software", say. They understand a number of individual features of individual languages, and some of the ways those features work together.

That doesn't necessarily mean that it's a good analogy. But I can kind of see it in, say, the new versions of C++. Many people can't or don't learn all the implications of all the changes before the next version comes out.

> The "changes in tech" can be regarded as almost continuous

Wouldn’t this require a scaling constant analogous to the Boltzmann constant or ideal gas constant to be true?

I doubt there are 10^23 lines of asm in all the binaries ever compiled, let alone larger “tech changes”