Analogy is a powerful cognitive mechanism that people use to make inferences and learn new abstractions. Per the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "An analogy is a comparison between two objects, or systems of objects, that highlights respects in which they are thought to be similar."
The video, How Drones Could Change the Shipping Industry, helps you understand the possible impact artificial intelligence, structured information, and distributed ledgers will have on accounting, reporting, auditing, and analysis.
Use your imagination. What analogies do you see? Let me know.