It was always so? It is so in every single technology: A layer is built and its complexities are solved, enabling the people and society to move to the next level and build another layer on it. With every step, more layers are put in between the lowest level and where we are. But every layer pushes us up one level more, allowing us to do things that were unimaginable before.
Technology has always been middleware. Somewhere someone discovers a pioneering, new implementation or tech. The rest of the process is doing middleware to bring that tech to the people.
It was always so? It is so in every single technology: A layer is built and its complexities are solved, enabling the people and society to move to the next level and build another layer on it. With every step, more layers are put in between the lowest level and where we are. But every layer pushes us up one level more, allowing us to do things that were unimaginable before.
Technology has always been middleware. Somewhere someone discovers a pioneering, new implementation or tech. The rest of the process is doing middleware to bring that tech to the people.