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{{a|systems|}} | {{a|systems|}}{{Quote|''Turkey'': “I have transformed myself into a data-driven business. All my data — and I’ve got reams of the stuff — tells me that every morning I shall be fed at 9 am on the dot. Aha! Here comes the farmer, right on time! I wonder if I’ll get a special treat because it is Christmas!” | ||
''Charlotte (spinning web)'': Ummm}} | |||
{{quote|As at the time of its analysis, all data is from the past. | |||
:—[[Roger Martin]]}} | |||
The obsession with [[big data]] has a few implications: | The obsession with [[big data]] has a few implications: | ||
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As surely as [[ugliest man|the ugliest man]] killed God, so did data kill the [[superman]]. The ''will to power'' is defeated by the million-strong dull blades of the ''[[will to entropy]]''. It is the ''will to [[premium mediocre]]''. | As surely as [[ugliest man|the ugliest man]] killed God, so did data kill the [[superman]]. The ''will to power'' is defeated by the million-strong dull blades of the ''[[will to entropy]]''. It is the ''will to [[premium mediocre]]''. | ||
===It is historical=== | |||
All data is from the past, as the saying goes | |||
===It is bad=== | |||
===It is illiberal=== | ===It is illiberal=== | ||
Second, in its [[reductionism]], in its funnelling of a dispersed population into an essential homogeneity, it speaks to the underlying belief in a grand unifying theory of everything: a transcendent ''truth''. This, in the [[JC]]’s view, is a profoundly illiberal idea: to be unable to accommodate pluralism is to ''deny'' of pluralism. | Second, in its [[reductionism]], in its funnelling of a dispersed population into an essential homogeneity, it speaks to the underlying belief in a grand unifying theory of everything: a transcendent ''truth''. This, in the [[JC]]’s view, is a profoundly illiberal idea: to be unable to accommodate pluralism is to ''deny'' of pluralism. | ||