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Digitalisation of data and the advances in ''information technology'' allow us to manipulate, desiccate, desecrate, defibrillate and duplicate our [[data]]. We can, in theory, handle ''any'' kind of syntactical complexity, optionality, or flexibility — if the [[algorithm]] is good enough, a machine can, instantly, ingest and process any textual construction, however dense.  These are the tools we have available to us: with a simple cut-and-paste we can replicate, vary and augment at will. ''But this is not to say we should''. This we call the [[Yngwie Malmsteen paradox|Yngwie Malmsteem paradox]]; [[Nigel Tufnel]] might have called it the [[Jazz paradox]]: Just because developments in guitar technology<ref>Scalloped frets, flat radii, locking tuners, rectified amplifiers etc.</ref> and technique mean you ''can'' play 64th note flattened mixolydian arpeggios at 200 bpm ([[Yngwie Malmsteen|Yngwie]]) or whole-tone improvisations using inverted variations of the #7aug13 chord (Jazz), ''doesn’t mean you should''.  <br>