The Hardware Lottery: We may be trying to build a ladder to the Moon

This is my take on the term 'Hardware Lottery'. Introduced by Sara Hooker, it is the unintentional prejudice observed historically towards certain research ideas in computer science that succeed, not because they were far superior to others but due to how well-suited they were for the available hardware and software of the time, often creating a 'noise' to the interpretability of new research directions. What is missing in this puzzle? Let's take a look.