Given the circumstances, Carson thinks technology has had a positive impact, especially tools such as on-line assessments that provide immediate feedback.
Unlike the classical gold standard, there is no market feedback mechanism to bring the quantity of money in line with the demand for money while maintaining long-run price stability.
"We continue to be intrigued by the conversation that surrounds the BIC for Her line and are always interested in hearing consumer feedback about our products, " said BIC USA spokeswoman Jill Johnson.
The hacker doesn't even need to be in the same ZIP code to crack a firewall or VPN -- the 3G link lets the Power Pwn take bash command-line instructions through SMS messages and doles out some of its feedback the same way.
Creating and harnessing feedback systems to perform useful activities is perhaps the most powerful way of organizing work since the introduction of the assembly line.