I personally think it has to do with the belief that improvements in ALL important areas such as agriculture, energy, medicine etc are supported strongly by in

I personally think it has to do with the belief that improvements in ALL important areas such as agriculture, energy, medicine etc are supported strongly by increased computational power. This is perhaps a belief, an ideology, an assumption or perhaps a theory. It doesn't matter much what you call it. The important part is to understand that computation today plays a similar role as to what mathematics did before we got computation. Interestingly enough, Alan Kay performed a talk a couple of years ago about this topic, questioning why despite sustained growth and investment into computing power in medicine, medicine discovery was actually _dropping_ as a result. I don't recall exactly if it was "medicine discovery", but it was something important related to that idea. So, that's an important topic to discuss if you hold the belief that computation will improve all areas of living in invisible ways by being some sort of mathematical infrastructure or whatever you want to call it.