A recent wide-ranging, erudite, and politically salient Substack post by Justin Smith defends the thesis that "we may identify a vast process currently underway whereby we are moving, in our efforts to understand reality and to harness it to our ends,
The flipside of this attitude about "its to bits" can be found in this good analysis from Tim Lee https://www.understandingai.org/p/software-didnt-eat-the-world
I've been talking about this for the last 20 years or so. Our concepts of the economy haven't caught up with the fact that it's mostly bits now
https://johnquiggin.com/2022/10/17/capitalism-without-capital-doesnt-work/