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The ''reductio ad absurdum'' of the foregoing: [[internal audit]]ors have recently hit upon the need to internally audit ''themselves''. To the extent this is not auto-erotic, it is potentially dystopian — then again, the auto-erotic is the same glass, half-full, as the dystopian is half-empty. | The ''reductio ad absurdum'' of the foregoing: [[internal audit]]ors have recently hit upon the need to internally audit ''themselves''. To the extent this is not auto-erotic, it is potentially dystopian — then again, the auto-erotic is the same glass, half-full, as the dystopian is half-empty. | ||
But might that forthcoming moment, whereupon [[All watched over by the machines of loving grace| | But might that forthcoming moment, whereupon [[All watched over by the machines of loving grace|machines who lovingly watch over us]] begin to watch ''themselves'', be the greatly-anticipated inflection point at which a [[corporation]] — famously, a [[Legal personality|person]] in ''legal'' fiction, able to sue and be sued, but not share a pint down the local — becomes self-aware? | ||
Wake up, Neo. [[The Singularity is Near|The singularity is near]]. | Wake up, Neo. [[The Singularity is Near|The singularity is near]]. |