“Just as Uber is doing for taxis, new technologies have the potential to chop up a broad array of traditional jobs into discrete tasks that can be assigned to people just when they’re needed, with wages set by a dynamic measurement of supply and demand, and every worker’s performance constantly tracked, reviewed and subject to the sometimes harsh light of customer satisfaction.”

Uber’s Business Model Could Change Your Work - NYTimes.com

Does this sound like a techno-utopian vision of the invisible hand?