&quot;A super-charming machine&quot;<p>A television, or a tablet with facebook and youtube apps?<p>Its interesting to think of mass propaganda a la Bernays as an example of &quot;super charming machine&quot;.  In the old days the cogs and wheels in the marketing business are&#x2F;were humans, just like in the old days &quot;math calculator&quot; was a job description but it got automated and accelerated into computers.<p>Populist political machine might be another example.