October 15, 2011
"With the coming of the Industrial Revolution… the economy developed a muscular system in the form of machine power. Now it is developing a neural system… Around 1990, computers started seriously to talk to each other, and all these connections started to happen. The individual machines—servers—are like neurons, and the axons and synapses are the communication pathways and linkages that enable them to be in conversation with each other and to take appropriate action."

The second economy - McKinsey Quarterly - Strategy - Growth