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}}The ''reductio ad absurdam'' — sorry, my mistake: I mean ''logical conclusion'' — of [[middle management]]’s generational headlong stampede towards [[outsourcing]] all those messy externalities that are a by-product of needing [[meatware]] to carry out your business objectives. | }}The ''reductio ad absurdam'' — sorry, my mistake: I mean ''logical conclusion'' — of [[middle management]]’s generational headlong stampede towards [[outsourcing]] all those messy externalities that are a by-product of needing [[meatware]] to carry out your business objectives. | ||
For all the — well, ''chat'' — [[chatbot]]s haven’t yet managed to supplant those cretinous lumps who are needed push whatever buttons must be pushed to propel the great steampunk corporation forward. But now | For all the — well, ''chat'' — [[chatbot]]s haven’t yet managed to supplant those cretinous lumps who are needed push whatever buttons must be pushed to propel the great steampunk corporation forward. But now they’re in danger of infecting each other with fatal illness, we must find a safe remove at which these oafs can operate without accidentally murdering each other. ''Eureka''! They can stay in their own homes! | ||
Now there was a time where employment in the professions afforded status in society, and one had the accoutrements to match: an office with a mahogany desk, an elephant’s foot umbrella-stand in the corner, a minute secretary, an executive model ''Dictaphone'', and so on. | Now there was a time where employment in the professions afforded status in society, and one had the accoutrements to match: an office with a mahogany desk, an elephant’s foot umbrella-stand in the corner, a minute secretary, an executive model ''Dictaphone'', and so on. | ||