You're right, the machine in front of me does not do any "serious computing." It's just a device which lets me communicate with the people I work with, look up

You're right, the machine in front of me does not do any "serious computing." It's just a device which lets me communicate with the people I work with, look up things on the internet, and enable me to work on a ~500 core cluster. The computer in front of me is basically just an appliance now. That has no bearing on the actual work I do.