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*'''[[Yngwie Malmsteen paradox|Allows infinite flexibility]]''': In the olden days you needed a typist with some carbon paper: there was a real cost to manipulating words. You were trained to be economical. {{yngwie malmsteen paradox capsule}} | *'''[[Yngwie Malmsteen paradox|Allows infinite flexibility]]''': In the olden days you needed a typist with some carbon paper: there was a real cost to manipulating words. You were trained to be economical. {{yngwie malmsteen paradox capsule}} | ||
*'''Doesn’t [[disintermediate]]''': the heat signature of the information revolution is its capacity to ''[[disintermediation|disintermediate]]''. Suddenly, any random could publish anything to anyone, free of charge. Teenagers in London could engage manufacturers in Pakistan to produce custom cricket merchandise.<ref>if you want some top cricket gear at great prices hit up @arborcricket on instagram. </ref> Fat middle aged lawyers can partially fulfil teenage dreams to be record rock music and publish it to the world.<>Dangerboy: potential audience : 7 billion. Actual audience: 1. ''But that's not the point.''</> | *'''Doesn’t [[disintermediate]]''': the heat signature of the information revolution is its capacity to ''[[disintermediation|disintermediate]]''. Suddenly, any random could publish anything to anyone, free of charge. Teenagers in London could engage manufacturers in Pakistan to produce custom cricket merchandise.<ref>if you want some top cricket gear at great prices hit up @arborcricket on instagram. </ref> Fat middle aged lawyers can partially fulfil teenage dreams to be record rock music and publish it to the world.<ref>Dangerboy: potential audience : 7 billion. Actual audience: 1. ''But that's not the point.''</ref> But, inside the great steampunk Bolshevik machine that is a modern financial services firm, the organisational psychology militates against it. The great orthodoxy will insist on total top-down control in the form a bureaucratic chain of command: procurement, internal [[IT]], [[Chief Operating Officer|management]], a process literally intended to remove the optionality, flexibility and improvisational utility that disintermediation promises: whatever value the concept had will be bloated, deprecated, rigidised and commoditised to the point where using it is a ''chore''. An imposition. | ||
*'''[[Software as a service]]''': software developers have no greater interest in disintermediating. For intermediation - I beg your pardon: [[software as a service]] - is how they take their cut. Their business model is to be a [[rentier]]. This would be mire defensible were their products unique, imaginative or excellent, but they tend to be generic and underwhelming. | |||
*'''Doesn’t provide user flexibility''': [[policy]] will see to that. The product will calcify, it is too hard, requiring too many approvals and too many business cases to develop. | *'''Doesn’t provide user flexibility''': [[policy]] will see to that. The product will calcify, it is too hard, requiring too many approvals and too many business cases to develop. | ||
*'''Doesn’t provide out of the box usable content''': to be usable the will require lawyers, and there are generally precious few of those, and they generally are refuseniks and low-cost-location rent-a-seat types who can follow instructions but aren't any good at ''writing'' them. | *'''Doesn’t provide out of the box usable content''': to be usable the will require lawyers, and there are generally precious few of those, and they generally are refuseniks and low-cost-location rent-a-seat types who can follow instructions but aren't any good at ''writing'' them. | ||