Media Ecology

Extreme paraphrasing everywhere to fit the story. I forgot the sources, but I follow Alan Kay (on Quora, YouTube, and elsewhere), and have read some pieces written by Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson.

This says most of it:
https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine

Better yet, for Vannevar Bush and for many others, was that analog machines had a wonderfully evocative quality. They didn't just calculate an answer; they invited you to go in and make a tangible model of the world with your own hands, and then they acted out the unfolding reality right before your eyes. For anyone watching that process, Bush wrote, "one part at least of formal mathematics will become a live thing." Compared to that, digital computers seemed static and dead, nothing but electrons zipping invisibly through wires. That may have been why Bush himself later seemed to feel such a sense of loss as digital computing swept the world, starting in the 1950s. Certainly he never wavered in his own commitment to the analog approach. Doggedly, and without success, the Best Apparatus Man in America kept on trying to come up with a workable analog design for his Memex until his death, in 1974. And until the end, his colleagues could hear him grumbling about the "damn digital computer."

Also used source, maybe not for that quote:
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/dealers-of-lightning-michael-a-hiltzik