We have had "probability before pascal"...and turing (Franklin), It is akin to tech-chic not because it is progress like glasses, but because it also provides >=illusion of qualitative progress when merely the error of measure rises explosively and non-linearly in a way that the measure becomes meaningless. In this world the most friends on FB have the most "reputation", and if this seems like an uncharitable example many would be hard pressed to find something more relevant via nu-computation other than mere obfuscation.