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The JC complains a lot about the modern world’s obsession with technology and reducing everything to [[Data modernism|data]]. | [[Jobsworthism|The]] JC complains a lot about the modern world’s obsession with technology and reducing everything to [[Data modernism|data]]. | ||
===The data modernism rap-sheet=== | |||
[[Data modernism]]’s rap-sheet is long. | [[Data modernism]]’s rap-sheet is long. | ||
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It ''cuts corners'': it relies on [[scale]] to deliver ''[[Averagarianism|averagarian]]'' solutions to suit the majority, and cares less about outliers, edge cases and odd-bods (sorry, all you people at the margins, you are just not worth our lazy while). | It ''cuts corners'': it relies on [[scale]] to deliver ''[[Averagarianism|averagarian]]'' solutions to suit the majority, and cares less about outliers, edge cases and odd-bods (sorry, all you people at the margins, you are just not worth our lazy while). | ||
It is ''disingenuous'': it sells a better, faster, more effective service while delivering a poorer, less flexible one. It is thereby [[premium mediocre]]: it sells the appearance of quality, with none of its cost. | It is ''disingenuous'': it sells a better, faster, more effective service while delivering a poorer, less flexible one. It is thereby [[premium mediocre]]: it sells the ''appearance'' of quality, with none of its cost. | ||
It ''depersonalises'': because it works best when consumers fall easily into broad, simple categories, it incentivises consumers to identify ''themselves'' in broad, simple categories, and as such ''polarises'' and tribalises the market. | It ''depersonalises'': because it works best when consumers fall easily into broad, simple categories, it incentivises consumers to identify ''themselves'' in broad, simple categories, and as such ''polarises'' and tribalises the market. | ||
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This is how complex systems will work where there is the means to reap the easy benefits of automation. We have always taken the benefits of technology, and always given away peripheral qualities. This is bound to happen in an evolving market. Those who don't follow suit will die, unless they can contrive ''a new way of thriving''. | This is how complex systems will work where there is the means to reap the easy benefits of automation. We have always taken the benefits of technology, and always given away peripheral qualities. This is bound to happen in an evolving market. Those who don't follow suit will die, unless they can contrive ''a new way of thriving''. | ||
There is scope for playing at the edges of | There is scope for playing at the edges of thundering herd — going [[off piste]], playing in the rich and uninterrupted back country. The rewards there are colossal — but so are the risks: tree-wells, cliffs, avalanches — and there is no ski patrol. If you go over, you are on your own. so you have to ne good at what you do. No corner-cutting or infantilising for you. | ||
What has changed is our ''capacity'' for automation. It is exponentially greater than it was a generation ago. It feels exponentially greater than it was a ''year'' ago. | What has changed is our ''capacity'' for automation. It is exponentially greater than it was a generation ago. It feels exponentially greater than it was a ''year'' ago. | ||