[andyfox]

Seems David is asking what the psychological effect will be on the 5% who have a cursory knowledge of how the then-current technology works and/or the smaller percentage that have a hope of understanding the underlying principles.

I suppose it will be the same as it's been throughout history. Those who think they know more than others, and that the others will never be smart enough to hope to know what they (the smart ones) know, will look down on the dummies, and think that their smartness means that they can do anything better than the less smart. Indeed, they can, in the sense that, as David has pointed out, smarter people, all other things being equal, will do a better job at anything.

But if the gap between the knowledge of the smart and the lack of knowledge of the less smart widens, and the smart realize this, there may be a psychological hubris that causes the smart to forget that not everything is equal and that they cannot simply apply their smartness to all areas or situations without care and deep thought.