When you've been around the block a few times like wot I have, and lived through many cycles of innovation in computing, you begin to notice patterns repeating. Much of what's touted as new turns out to be built on the same underlying principles - many of them originating before I was born - just repackaged and tweaked, with a spiffy new hat and shiny new shoes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgqW1eV8C0E