From a software development perspective, the more I think of it, the more I understand it's just another abstraction layer. Before that came high level language

From a software development perspective, the more I think of it, the more I understand it's just another abstraction layer. Before that came high level languages and JVM of sorts, before that came the compiler, before that came the assembler. Outside of the software world it's mostly a (much!) better Google. Between now and a Star Trek world, there's so much to build that we can use any help we can get.