For instance, the libertarian view of capitalism has become so exalted among tech types and bright young people that it isn't even contested anymore - it is just the common air we breathe. The same bias benefits the Dawkinsian view of evolution as well as game-theory models of politics. This development is flattering to computer scientists, but it still annoys me. The world is narrowed when a single type of metaphor becomes too dominant. In an algorithm, every little detail makes sense.
Tiny algorithms can spin out a huge amount of apparent complexity.
Reality isn't necessarily like this. Sometimes complexity isn't reducible. Sometimes a free market crashes, an anatomical trait makes no sense, and the better idea loses. The Internet has created the most precise mirror of people as a whole that we've yet had. It is not the hagiography of an era, condensed by a romantic idealist or a sneering cynic.