Wretch in the machine (1)

For December

Broken into three parts due to length. Parts 2 and 3 will arrive in January.

I. Elisions and revisions which a minute will reverse

[M]ost men don’t understand computers to even the slightest degree. So, unless they are capable of very great skepticism… they can explain the computer’s intellectual feats only by bringing to bear the single analogy available…