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{{a|systems|}}{{quote|I distrust all systematisers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity. | {{a|systems|}}{{quote|I distrust all systematisers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity. | ||
:—{{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}}, {{ | :—{{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}}, {{br|Twilight of the Idols}}}} | ||
{{D|Data modernism|/ˈdeɪtə ˈmɒdənɪzm/|n|}} | {{D|Data modernism|/ˈdeɪtə ˈmɒdənɪzm/|n|}} | ||
The belief that sufficiently powerful machines running sufficiently sophisticated [[algorithm]]s over sufficiently massive quantities of unstructured [[data]] can, by themselves, solve the future. | The belief that sufficiently powerful machines running sufficiently sophisticated [[algorithm]]s over sufficiently massive quantities of unstructured [[data]] can, by themselves, solve the future. | ||
''A prelude to the [[great delamination]].'' | |||
There is a strand of [[High modernism|high-modernist]] thought<ref>For more on high-modernism see {{br|The Death and Life of Great American Cities}} and {{br|Seeing Like a State}}</ref> that optimised human interaction can be derived mathematically from data science: that all that has stopped it till now is the want of a sufficiently powerful machine to run the calculations. | There is a strand of [[High modernism|high-modernist]] thought<ref>For more on high-modernism see {{br|The Death and Life of Great American Cities}} and {{br|Seeing Like a State}}</ref> that optimised human interaction can be derived mathematically from data science: that all that has stopped it till now is the want of a sufficiently powerful machine to run the calculations. | ||