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-[[File:Vogon poetry2.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[Vogon]], yesterday]]
+[[File:Rube Goldberg machine.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[reg-tech]] solution yesterday. Each number represents a [[rent-seeker]].]]
 }}{{quote|They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders – signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firefighters.
-:—{{Douglas Adams}}, {{hhgg}}}}
+:—{{author|Douglas Adams}}, {{hhgg}}}}
 Here is how modern management works.
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 Ok note that point: as of now, without even trying, we have exactly what we want, where we want it: ''structured digital data, suitable for piping around the organisation, able to be ingested into any database, free of any meddling [[substrate]]''. We are in the home strait, are we not?
+Allow me a quick observation here, readers. “Establishing an automated process to transmit data from one point to another across a network” is not a challenging proposition. It is not innovative. It is not difficult to do. It is the basic operating premise of network computing.
+Buts story would not be worth the telling if we were going to do anything as sensible as that, would it? We have the makings of a good process; let us now ''break'' it.
 ===2. Break it ===
-But now we must break it. For our loyal [[negotiator]] inputs this data not into MySQL, as you would expect, but into a [[Microsoft Word]] document. {{sex|She}} then prints it out, onto paper, spends a couple of days wandering in around the organisation trying to find someone to ''[[Electronic execution|sign]]'' that piece of paper — you know, with a ''[[Wet signature|biro]]'' — and then she scans the whole thing into .tiff format and converts it to email. Thus, we have taken a perfectly processable ASCII-encoded digital artefact, rendered it as an unprocessable analog  on an expensive, perishable and eminently losable [[substrate]] (paper), re-digitised that as a flipping ''picture'', and then sent it off to a team of school-leavers in Bucharest whose job it is to receive it, print it out, read it, and transcribe the contents is collateral engine.
+For our loyal [[negotiator]] inputs this data not into MySQL, as you would expect, but into a ''[[Microsoft Word]] document''. {{sex|She}} then prints it out, onto paper, spends a couple of days wandering in around the organisation trying to find someone to ''[[Electronic execution|sign]]'' that piece of paper — you know, with a ''[[Wet signature|biro]]'' — and then she scans the whole thing into .tiff format and converts it to email. Thus, we have taken a perfectly processable ASCII-encoded digital artefact, rendered it as an unprocessable analog on an expensive, perishable and eminently losable [[substrate]] (paper), re-digitised that as a flipping ''picture'', and then sent it off to a team of school-leavers in Bucharest whose job it is to receive it, print it out, read it, and transcribe the contents into the collateral engine.
+Hence the {{hhgg}} quote at the top.
+===3. Introduce reg-tech to “fix” it===
+This would be sad if it were not true. Enter the [[digital prophet]]s