Maybe a parallel.
When steam power came along folks made boats, railroad engines, sawmills, they just played and created. They had this new way of applying power and found all manner of applications.
Seems to me that's about where we are with computing power. It came along, and they found it could be used for more than number crunching. As more power became available, and the technology for making chips evolved, it found uses undreamed of previously. Cell phones, for instance.
I'll bet that computing power will find even more uses, and evolve, much like steam did.
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