As in a classic Renaissance house, we now inhabit the piano nobile, the upper, noble floor, not even knowing what happens in the ground floor below us, where technologies are humming in the service rooms. Unless there is some malfunctioning, we may not even know that such technologies are in place. But, if something goes wrong, it is the specialist who will now have to take care of both sides of the interface, with the result that specialists are the new priests in Janus’ temple. They will become increasingly powerful and influential the more we rely on higher order technologies.

Luciano Floridi, The 4th Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality