I'd say this is part of the mainstream move from an "industrial" society (with mostly human robots and computers) to an "information" society (with mostly human

I'd say this is part of the mainstream move from an "industrial" society (with mostly human robots and computers) to an "information" society (with mostly human modelers and architects, as robots and computers are now machines). We now start with the "why", see where knowledge fits in the puzzle of reality, where it plugs and how to find it; then only on a need-to-basis do we go deeper into the 'how'.