"With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities."
Rodney Brooks is an Australian roboticist and entrepreneur. He is known for influential work in behavior-based robotics and for helping shape modern approaches to embodied artificial intelligence. Brooks has also founded and led robotics companies in commercial automation.