Abstraction

Abstraction is driven by the requirement of efficiency. Efficiency means advantage. In accent times, it's a matter of life and death. Nowadays it's mainly suitable to the business world.

Abstraction is a word mainly for computer science. But the methodology or idea can be seen in every fields.

Countries and cities are built by this idea to better integration of resources and thus achieve greater goals.

Real Estate industry emerged to better utilize land resources instead of each home occupying a exclusive block of land.

In the computer world itself. Back in the old days, physical machines are used as the exclusive server for applications. But then, for better resource efficiency, virtualization technology comes around, namely VM and then docker/k8s. Now we are in the era of cloud computing.

The Water industry & Power industry, if you take a look at their history, they are the same logic.

The above are a few examples of this kind of abstruction for better resource utilitization or efficiency. So the opportunity lies out there if we take closer look at some traditional industries. Such as Catering Industry, Farming.