[W]e have a long history of explaining the present via the output of
industry. These rationalizations are always grounded in familiarity, and
thus they feel convincing. But mostly they are metaphors.
Each generation, we reset a belief that we've reached the end of this
chain of metaphors, even though history always proves us wrong precisely
because there's always another technology or trend offering a fresh
metaphor. Indeed, an exceptionalism that favors the present is one of
the ways that science has become theology.
-- Ian Bogost "The Cathedral of Computation" The Atlantic
(Jan 15 2015).
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-cathedral-of-computation/384300/