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[[Line manager]]<nowiki/>s are, by their own management, ''exhorted'' to have weekly meetings with directs; ''obliged'' to populate standing agendas; ''made'' to produce [[Management information and statistics|MIS]].  
[[Line manager]]<nowiki/>s are, by their own management, ''exhorted'' to have weekly meetings with directs; ''obliged'' to populate standing agendas; ''made'' to produce [[Management information and statistics|MIS]].  


Why? ''Because they wouldn’t do it otherwise and no-one would miss it''.
Why? ''Because they wouldn’t do it otherwise, and no-one would miss it''.  
{{data
Now here is the thing. There is, the JC freely narratises, an epochal battle raging between [[expert|experts]] and technocrats which the technocrats have, for thirty years, been winning. As we move into the era of artificial intelligence the wear feels like it is in an end-game: no ''Götterdammerung'', no great final conflict but rather a whimpering out of human expertise, finally beaten down by the irrepressible logic of data. We acquire tools to help the experts, ''digital'' tools, and the tools create ''metadata''. A typed letter contains no machine-readable metadata; a facsimile contains a limited amount; an ASCII document is ''only'' data.  


And as the talent loses, we succumb to data, increasingly giving it off, great clods of it, which the technocrats then harvest and weaponise back at us in some self-fulfilling apocalyptic prophecy. No matter that the data are a historical, formalistic digital sketch of a model; that they bear no resemblance to the great ineffable, analog whole: there is no historical measure of the forward value of actions not taken, crises headed off; capital investments avoided through quick thinking and untraced application of human common sense.
{{data as a self-fulfilling prophecy}}
 
The technocrats build tools to make lives easier which happen as a by-product to generate data, and then the data is all the residue that remains, not the ''lives made easier''.
 
And the more data we give off, the more it emboldens the technocrats: the more it seems to be universal, and all-telling to immerse themselves in an alternative universe described by the data.


Communications up and down the chain of command do not advance the [[commercial imperative]], but ''react'' to it. They are validations of things the report already knows; reluctant, strained, for-the-sake-of-it FYIs; updates and postings serving only to spare the manager’s blushes should she be blind-sided by someone else.  Vertical communications fulfil formal, not substantive, requirements for order.  
Communications up and down the chain of command do not advance the [[commercial imperative]], but ''react'' to it. They are validations of things the report already knows; reluctant, strained, for-the-sake-of-it FYIs; updates and postings serving only to spare the manager’s blushes should she be blind-sided by someone else.  Vertical communications fulfil formal, not substantive, requirements for order.  
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