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Since [[Systemantics|systems]] don’t go away, and since they occupy space, our landscape is now littered with the bleached bones and rotting carcasses of old attempted solutions to our problems. | Since [[Systemantics|systems]] don’t go away, and since they occupy space, our landscape is now littered with the bleached bones and rotting carcasses of old attempted solutions to our problems. | ||
:—{{author|John Gall}}, {{Br|Systemantics}}}} | :—{{author|John Gall}}, {{Br|Systemantics}}}} | ||
The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World’s Fair | The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World’s Fair. They expected it to be gone by 1909. | ||
Any temporary thing, fix, solution or | Any temporary thing, fix, solution or artefact ''that does the job'' — or just ''a'' job, even if not the one you had in mind — will tend to permanence. | ||
It will embed itself into the accreting, silting up on the riverbed, encrusting into [[Burgess Shale]]. Limpets attach to it, run processes of it, and the inconvenience of removing it and putting in place something more permanent quickly becomes harder | |||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Better call ChatGPT}} | |||
*[[When budget allows]] | *[[When budget allows]] | ||
*{{Br|Systemantics}}, {{author|John Gall}}’s wonderful exposition of the horror of systems. | *{{Br|Systemantics}}, {{author|John Gall}}’s wonderful exposition of the horror of systems. | ||