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[[System redundancy|One of the]] [[JC]]’s pet theories is that western commerce — especially the [[Financial services|part concerned with moving green bits of paper around]] — is deep into the regrettable phase of a love affair with “[[data modernism]]”, a computer-adulterated form of [[high modernism]]. | [[System redundancy|One of the]] [[JC]]’s pet theories is that western commerce — especially the [[Financial services|part concerned with moving green bits of paper around]] — is deep into the regrettable phase of a love affair with “[[data modernism]]”, a computer-adulterated form of [[high modernism]]. | ||
{{High modernism capsule}} | |||
Embraced as it was by the two great Utopian ideologies of the twentieth century, high modernism reached its zenith in the 1930s, and fell from grace as dramatically as they did, but its basic, mad-scientist premise — that with sufficient information, processing power and control we can master our domain — has never quite gone away. | |||
There were two Utopian ideas that died in the twentieth century, and one that didn’t: [[F. W. Taylor]]’s [[scientific management]]: the view that, just as the natural world can be ordered by science, so can the business world be ordered, and controlled, by ''[[process]]''. [[Process]] is a sort of [[algorithm]] that runs on a carbon and not a silicon [[substrate]]: that is, ''us''. [[Taylorism]], too, once out of favour, is making a revival in the networked, data-driven world. We call this “[[data modernism]]”. It is encapsulated in the expression, attributed to Edwin R. Fisher: | |||
{{quote|In God we trust. All others must bring data.<ref>Notably, Fisher made the statement to a Senate subcommittee in rebuttal to the proposition that passive smoking is bad for you: “I should like to close by citing a well-recognised cliché in scientific circles. The cliché is, “In God we trust, others must provide data.” What we need is good scientific data before I am willing to accept and submit to the proposition that smoking is a hazard to the nonsmoker.”</ref>}} | |||
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