The impact of synthesizers is only just starting, imo. I'd argue that a generation of kids are using their musical ear to develop physical intuition for what sine, triangle, saw, pulse and other waves are and how they interact. The principles apply to light as much as they do to sound. When you take the combinatorics and symmetries of music and the physics of waves, you've got the makings of a pretty good intuitive curiosity for analog and quantum computing.
If you've got a modular synth rig and kids in your house, I'd posit that you are very much our future.
If you've got a modular synth rig and kids in your house, I'd posit that you are very much our future.