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Enter the internet, distributed [[network]]s, are tools are sharper but suddenly ''talk is cheap''. As such, you get what you pay for: a lot of cheap talk fills up the workplace. If we haven’t enough of this quadrophonic noise by the time we come to clock out, we can vent the remains of our metaphysical angst into the howling, stone-deaf gale that is the [[world wide web]], rather the well-bent ears of our long-suffering spouses and their bean-stuffed toe-rags. We sit at our tele-screens and watch our rage boil off, evaporating harmlessly into the infinite, thundering dark. | Enter the internet, distributed [[network]]s, are tools are sharper but suddenly ''talk is cheap''. As such, you get what you pay for: a lot of cheap talk fills up the workplace. If we haven’t enough of this quadrophonic noise by the time we come to clock out, we can vent the remains of our metaphysical angst into the howling, stone-deaf gale that is the [[world wide web]], rather the well-bent ears of our long-suffering spouses and their bean-stuffed toe-rags. We sit at our tele-screens and watch our rage boil off, evaporating harmlessly into the infinite, thundering dark. | ||
I’m getting a bit carried away, aren’t I. | [[File:Internet vs divorce.png|350px|frameless|right|A happy compromise, yesterday.]]I’m getting a bit carried away, aren’t I. But not entirely: see left for what Google’s ngram viewer makes of the relationship between marital harmony and a fulfilled online life. But while [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law Andy (and his successors) have been givething, it is not just Bill who has been takething away]. The [[middle management]] layer has been doing its bit too, by — well, basically by ''inventing'' itself to occupy the space occupied by the crickets. And it we take it that the productivity tools came on line from the mid 1980s — personal computers, the [[fax]], [[e-mail]] and then this glorious thing called the [[world wide web]]. | ||
[[File:BS bingo.png|350px|frameless|right|This graphic courtesy of the JC’s own spurious correlations research programme]]So, wouldn’t it be a gas to see when the middle management [[buzzword]]s started to come into the corpus? | |||
Well, fancy that. | |||
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