Sure, but that's been the case for thousands of years.
The novelty is in the global nature of the competition, the physical and informational proximity that accelerate evolution of patterns. That's what makes them spread so quickly and prominently, across seemingly unrelated scales and disciplines.
Another curious manifestation is how humans are changing the way they treat each other, how they structure their (human) relationships. Did humans tame the computers, or did computers tame the humans?
The novelty is in the global nature of the competition, the physical and informational proximity that accelerate evolution of patterns. That's what makes them spread so quickly and prominently, across seemingly unrelated scales and disciplines.
Another curious manifestation is how humans are changing the way they treat each other, how they structure their (human) relationships. Did humans tame the computers, or did computers tame the humans?