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It’s worth asking again: if we’re getting nearer some kind of optimised nirvana, how come everything seems so joyless and glum? | It’s worth asking again: if we’re getting nearer some kind of optimised nirvana, how come everything seems so joyless and glum? | ||
Since data quantity and computing horsepower have exploded in the last few decades, the [[high-modernist]]s have grown ever surer that their time — the [[Singularity]] — is nigh. Before long | Since data quantity and computing horsepower have exploded in the last few decades, the [[high-modernist]]s have grown ever surer that their time — the [[Singularity]] — is nigh. Before long ''everything will be solved''. Our only dilemma: what to do with all our leisure-time. | ||
{{Singularity and perspective chauvinism}} | |||
That would explain a curious dissonance: these modernising techniques arrive and flourish, while traditional modes of working requiring skill, craftsmanship and tact are outsourced, computerised, right-sized and AI-enhanced — but yet the end product gets no less cumbersome, no faster, no leaner, and no less risky. ''[[Tedium]] remains constant''.<ref>This may be a [[fifteenth law of worker entropy]].</ref> | |||
There may be fewer [[subject matter expert]]s around, but there seem to be more [[software-as-a-service]] providers, [[Master of Business Administration|MBA]]s, [[COO]]s, [[workstream lead]]s and [[Proverbial school-leaver from Bucharest|itinerant school-leavers in call-centres on the outskirts of Brașov]] | |||
====Taylorism==== | ====Taylorism==== | ||
Done of this is new: just our enthusiasm for it. The prophet of [[data modernism]] was [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]], progenitor of the maximally efficient production line. His inheritors say things like, “[[The Singularity is Near|the singularity is near]]” and “[[Software is eating the world|software will eat the world]]” but for all their millenarianism the on-the-ground experience at the business end of this all world-eating software is as grim as it ever was. | Done of this is new: just our enthusiasm for it. The prophet of [[data modernism]] was [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]], progenitor of the maximally efficient production line. His inheritors say things like, “[[The Singularity is Near|the singularity is near]]” and “[[Software is eating the world|software will eat the world]]” but for all their millenarianism the on-the-ground experience at the business end of this all world-eating software is as grim as it ever was. | ||