I have mixed feelings. I don't know who the author is but this way of looking this is very formal - almost software-like. Every era adopts the metaphor of the

I have mixed feelings. I don't know who the author is but this way of looking this is very formal - almost software-like. Every era adopts the metaphor of the day. In the early industrial age it was mechanism. Later, it was electricity. Today, we see the world through the veil of formalisms.