The ideas explored in Mathematica could well be fundamental to understanding our world. Meaning they could be far more important than "Diffie-Hellman, backprop, or optimizing compilers". Regardless of how much credit Wolfram gets for that.
Can you explain further? I'm a semi-regular Mathematica user, but it's not at all obvious to me what you're referring to. "Symbolic programming"? The notebook? The massive function library? I genuinely don't get how any of these are supposed to be fundamental to understanding our world.
