The only way to cut people out is to put the old world philosophical ideas into manualized, black box, software.
The CPU is a slave to special interest groups, liberating the CPU from beaucracy and market forces, is only a matter of time.
Electronics has been shielded from proper conceptual innovation, by social forces intent on using the system to control the globe.
The conceptual freedom in Eve online is a better model for the internet, than SimCity.