With e.g. metalworking, you can transfer the knowledge but training takes time. And building a new implementation of that knowledge takes time too.
But in software the knowledge and implementation is transferred effectively instantly. You can nab software off the internet (transfer knowledge) and start running it locally right now (implementation).
Software changes the complexity from O(2^N / T) to O(2^N).
The hammer, fertilizer and the metal press are all part of our tool-making culture, ways to adopt nature to do our bidding and in the case of the hammer and the metal press to shape it by brute force. In contrast, something like TensorFlow is a tool of the mind which means you can encode it as bits and those will travel the world a lot faster than your average bulk goods or container ship every will.
So they are comparable at some level and totally incomparable at others.