This is an interesting comment. Media forms will no longer be incarnate in particular humans, but in more networked structures. Ideas, concepts, and their architectural design are more substantive actors now than individual voice or insight. This passage seems to describe the dystopia where the worst of the individual reaches supremacy in the worst kind of network.
Panic is never suitable in a crisis because it only encourages delay.
Which is to say, imagine a history in which the great analyst is irrelevant.