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{{a|g|'''From the “ | {{a|g|'''From the “{{t|Great lies of today}}{{tm}}” series'''<br>}}As we race to the bottom, in that dystopian future where [[chatbot]]s will wipe our grandparents’ arses and all roles in banking will be carried out by Marvin the paranoid android—like, the ''same'' machine will do the lot, having brute-force-solved human nature right?—we cannot help but pause and remark at that last great anomaly: that is, how goddamn ''expensive'' any kind of technology implementation is. | ||
Not just buying an application — “[[Software as a service|software as a service]]”, naturellement — that reviews and unimpressively marks up [[confidentiality agreement]]s for half a million bucks a year, but even a small piece of development work to an exisitng system, just to make sure it does something that any two-bit home-made iPhone app can do faultlessly — is budgeted to take six months and cost $800k. | Not just buying an application — “[[Software as a service|software as a service]]”, naturellement — that reviews and unimpressively marks up [[confidentiality agreement]]s for half a million bucks a year, but even a small piece of development work to an exisitng system, just to make sure it does something that any two-bit home-made iPhone app can do faultlessly — is budgeted to take six months and cost $800k. |