This article doesn't actually seem to explore too much the deep origins and cultural impact of this mode of modeling. Lewis Mumford for instance in The Myth of

This article doesn't actually seem to explore too much the deep origins and cultural impact of this mode of modeling. Lewis Mumford for instance in The Myth of the Machine all the way in 1970 wrote much better about the limitations of this way of thinking, that didn't do the heavy philosophizing of Baudrillard. The fact that models are necessary constructs, but are merely heuristics was one of Kant's main riffs (as much as I could understand), so maybe we've actually gotten worse at perceiving the limitations of models since we've lost touch with the real world over the last decades.