Childhood's End -in relation to computing

Just came across this, which says, more-or-less, something I've noted as a result of thinking about corporisations.

These new hybrid organizations, although built upon digital computers, are operating as analog computers on a vast, global scale, processing information as continuous functions and treating streams of bits the way vacuum tubes treat streams of electrons, or the way neurons treat information in a brain. Large hybrid analog/digital computer networks, in the form of economies, have existed for a long time, but for most of history the information circulated at the speed of gold and silver and only recently at the speed of light.

It's from an article by George Dyson (not to be confused with James) Childhood's End | Edge.org. I think the important thing he is saying in this article is that we imagine that humans are controlling these systems but in fact we aren't. That seems to harmonise with the corporisations insight from scripture -resting in the ancient world's view of things -only with the electronic and algorithmic integrated into the thinking.