A keyword is control. What you measure, you control. What you control, you can trust to turn out the way you planned. What's important is certainty, predictability, repeatability. What you get is the security of knowing how the future is going to unfold, day by day, month by month, year by year.
Computers love Newtonian thinking.
They are ideally suited to the logical, mathematical, linear approach of it. Machines of all sorts fit this approach well. Frederick Taylor had an answer to that problem that he called Scientific Management. Taylor followed people around with a clipboard and a stopwatch. The beauty of Newton's science and Taylor's management is the strong control.