October 3rd, 2016 is National Techies Day.

There’s a 100% chance that you’re reading this article on a screen. You might have another screen in your back pocket, or nestled among folders and binders in your bag. If you’re into wearable tech, you might have one strapped to your wrist in a stylish leather band. Maybe you’ve got one built into the dashboard of your car, or mounted onto the seats for movie-watching on road trips. There’s probably three or four more propped up in your house somewhere for home entertainment. My point is, we’re surrounded by our technology, blissfully ignorant of the man behind the screen, if you will, happy to tap away at our colorful apps and bring it into the Genius Bar if things stop working.

Who’s behind all this, you might ask? No, not in a conspiratorial computers-will-take-over-the-world kind of way, but who develops all of this technology? Who’s to thank for our way of life?

The answer, my friends, is techies, and they’ve got the world (literally) in the palm of their hand.

The folks over at CNET and Techies.com realized this technologically advanced path we’re currently on, so they started National Techies Day to encourage people everywhere to get involved in the fascinating world that is computer science and contemporary tech. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be the next Evan Spiegel (the guy who created Snapchat, who is 26 years old and currently worth 2.1 billion dollars!), or even Steve Jobs?

Tech is the way of the future. Back in 1999 (the World Wide Web was only ten years old!) it was predicted that 60% of new jobs would require advanced technology skills Americans didn’t have, and since then, that number has continued to grow. A study done in California by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute (commissioned by Engine Advocacy) figured out that for every high tech job there is, another four are created. Because of this, tech jobs are predicted to grow at least another 20% in the next four years. Technology (and therefore the people that create it) is running the show now, people, and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

So the next time you pick up your phone, or log onto your laptop, or any other hundreds of ways we use technology each and every day, just remember a saying by author Arthur C. Clark:

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.”