Turing's humor also provides a destination, or an eschatology that the Invisible Hand's humor lacks. Turing's algorithms could inherit the world in a way that the Hand could not.
Without our system of levees, rising like a glimmering bell-curved mountain of rice paddies, capitalism would probably have decayed into Marx's "attractor nightmare" in which markets decay into plutocracy.
at least he does accept the existence of levees
The usual Manichaean portrayal of the digital world is "new versus old". Crowdsourcing is "new," for instance, while salaries and pensions are "old." This book proposes pushing what is "new" all the way instead of part of the way.
except he doesn't ... not all the way ...
We will float from joy to joy, even the poorest among us living like a sybaritic magician.
The soldier could then take refuge only in reified duty--'I don't like it, but it is my duty'
