Just as someone who learned to drive a tractor could complete more physical labor in a day than 100 Herculean plowmen could have completed in a month, in this new era the human brain, augmented by technology, will be capable of doing things that are beyond anything thus far imagined. Contrary to what some people fear, the new era is the antithesis of the Industrial, or Machine, Age. This should be an inclusive era. So, too, most people shouldn't have to know anything about MIPS or bits or any other jargon to participate in the Information Age. Take the calculator, one of the early fruits of the microchip.
Calculators are ubiquitous and so cheap today that the packaging costs more than the device itself.
The calculator has made us all math geniuses. In a matter of seconds or minutes, we can now do the kinds of computations that used to take math whizzes hours or days to complete just 40 or 50 years ago. Some fear that the Information Age will leave many people behind. Free enterprise brings everyone along. Go to a supermarket.