I would argue that the shift to "Cogs in a giant automated dispatching machine" already happened with living in an industrialized society, except it's software instead of bureaucracy.
In either case, the organizational "middleware" is under the control of its owners.
It already happens to some degree, when you consider how strongly companies treat their stock price as an indicator of what is and isn't working and how much stock trading is automated these days. The companies dance to tunes increasingly played by algorithms.
In either case, the organizational "middleware" is under the control of its owners.