A good way to position the cB stack in today's technology landscape is to grasp the evolutionary nature of organizational, platform and UI/UX contexts.
Organizational models have evolved from top-down vertical hierarchies in the XIXth and early XXth centuries, to bottom-up horizontal market-driven ones since the 1990’s with the advent of world wide web. From the 2010's onward, distributed ecosystems have further transformed organizational models and their management platforms.