Perhaps obvious for you and I (and some others too), but not for everyone...Because i'll make the assumption that you and I (and some others too) are living in the future. But, like the saying goes: the future is already here, its merely unequally distributed...Or something like that. ;-)
I mean... the very first few sentences of the Multics paper intro say it:
> One of the overall design goals is to create a computing system which is capable of meeting almost all of the present and near-future requirements of a large computer utility.