There's a clip from the first episode of the show "Halt and Catch Fire" (which is a historical fiction show with each season hitting some breakthrough in personal computing, starting with IBM-compatible compact personal computers) where one character tells another, "Computer's aren't The Thing. They're the thing that gets us to The Thing."

I share it occasionally with friends to remind them of this. Computers are just tools. The really interesting question is what those tools can do for us.