I can't find it right now but there's a succinct image noting how, when the wheel was the most advanced technology, people talked about the world as a great wheel. When machine came about, people started describing the world as a clock or a great factory. When computers came about...
Anyways this shit is intellectual masturbation at best, and at worst self-aggrandizement by tech CEOs who want to believe and promote the idea that their specific thing is the closest analogy to How Things Really Work.
Have you tried thinking rationally?