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What we are left with, therefore is a welter of transparently preposterous ideas that emerge unbidden from the hive mind without anyone claiming credit for them. | What we are left with, therefore is a welter of transparently preposterous ideas that emerge unbidden from the hive mind without anyone claiming credit for them. | ||
[[Debt value adjustment|Debt value adjustments]]. [[Enron Corporation|Mark-to-market accounting for non-existent forward markets]]. [[Performance appraisal|Performance appraisals]]. [[Goals|SMART]] goals. [[Non-fungible token]]<nowiki/>s. | [[Debt value adjustment|Debt value adjustments]]. [[Enron Corporation|Mark-to-market accounting for non-existent forward markets]]. [[Performance appraisal|Performance appraisals]]. [[Goals|SMART]] goals. [[Non-fungible token]]<nowiki/>s. | ||
These ideas will persist and flourish as long as plausible livelihoods can be made out of them, but they have a habit of imploding, catastrophically. Here is where the hive mind comes into its own: as an emergent property of a superbrain, ''they are no-one’s fault''. | These ideas will persist and flourish as long as plausible livelihoods can be made out of them, but they have a habit of imploding, catastrophically. Here is where the hive mind comes into its own: as an emergent property of a superbrain, ''they are no-one’s fault''. | ||
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There was just one casualty: a brand new Oldsmobile Regency 98, that day acquired by one Walter Umenhofer, and parked up while he beseeched the project manager not to be so stupid, was flattened by a hunk of meat the size of a truck tyre. | There was just one casualty: a brand new Oldsmobile Regency 98, that day acquired by one Walter Umenhofer, and parked up while he beseeched the project manager not to be so stupid, was flattened by a hunk of meat the size of a truck tyre. | ||
A whale of a deal, indeed. {{sa}} | A whale of a deal, indeed. | ||
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*[[Emergence]] | *[[Emergence]] | ||
*[[ClauseHub]] | *[[ClauseHub]] | ||
{{ref}} | {{ref}} | ||