In addition to search engines and Stack Overflow, I'd include open-source software (and easy access to it via package managers, GitHub, etc.) as a massive produ

In addition to search engines and Stack Overflow, I'd include open-source software (and easy access to it via package managers, GitHub, etc.) as a massive productivity boost. I think that's in line with the process you described, of gluing together existing modules/solutions to accomplish purpose-specific tasks. From the perspective of augmenting the intellect via computers and software, I feel quite blessed to be living in the current historical time - at the same time, we're still far from Doug Englebart's vision, especially for the general, non-programming public. I also wonder about the "atrophy" that may come from depending on external augmentation, that we may be losing the ability to do things directly with "raw" intellect, without machines.