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 ====Bring your own job satisfaction====
-[[Data modernism|This philosophy]] has systematically undermined the organisational importance of ''people with [[ineffable]] expertise''. Over thirty or forty years the poor professional has, by a thousand literal cuts, been denuded of her status. It has been a slow, inevitable descent into the quotidian. First they came for her assistants — typists, receptionists, proof-readers, mail and fax room attendants — then her kit — company cars, laptops, mobile devices — then her space —  that once commodious office became communal, then lost its door, then its walls, diminished to a dedicated space along a row, and most recently has become a conditional promise of a sanitised space at a [[telescreen]] somewhere in the building, assuming you’re quick or enough people are out sick or on holiday.
+In pitting ''information'' against ''experience'' [[data modernism|This philosophy]] has systematically undermined the importance in organisations of ''people with [[ineffable]] expertise''. Such a person is labelled a “subject-matter expert”, which sounds venerable until you hear the exasperated tone in which it is usually uttered.
+Over forty years the poor [[SME]] has, by a thousand literal cuts, been denuded of her status. She as suffered a slow, inevitable descent into the quotidian: first they came for her assistants — typists, receptionists, proof-readers, mail and fax room attendants —  then her perks — business travel, away days, taxis home — then her kit — company cars, laptops, mobile devices — then her space —  that once commodious office became communal, then lost its door, then its walls, diminished to a dedicated space along a row, and most recently has become a conditional promise of a sanitised white space in front of a [[telescreen]] somewhere in the building, should you be quick enough, or others out sick or on holiday.
+This managed degradation of [[expert|expertise]] is a logical consequence of [[data modernism]]: human “magic” is not good, but an evil that is no longer necessary: risky, inconstant, evanescent, fragile, expensive, inconstant and, most of all, ''hard to quantify'' — and if you can’t quantify it, you can’t evaluate it, and if you can’t evaluate it you shouldn’t, in a data-optimised world, ''do'' it.
+With the exploding power of information processing the range of things for which we must still rely on that necessary evil has diminished. Many [[thought leader]]s<ref>The most prominent is [[Ray Kurzweil]], though honourable mention to DB’s former CEO John Cryan and, of course, there is the redoubtable [[Richard Susskind|Suss]]. </ref> foretell it is only a matter of time until there are none left at all.
-This managed deprecation of the value of [[expert|expertise]] is a logical consequence of [[data modernism]]: human “magic” is not good, but a necessary evil: risky, inconstant, evanescent, fragile, expensive, inconstant and, most of all, ''hard to quantify'' — and if you can’t quantify it, you can’t evaluate it, and if you can’t evaluate it you shouldn’t, in a data-optimised world, ''do'' it. As our tools have developed — thanks to the explosion in the power of information processing since 1980 —
-the range of things on which we must still rely on meatware has diminished. Many [[thought leader]]s<ref>The most prominent is [[Ray Kurzweil]], though honourable mention to DB’s former CEO John Cryan and, of course, there is the redoubtable [[Richard Susskind|Suss]]. </ref> foretell it is only a matter of time until there are none left at all.
 ====Sciencing the shit out of business====
 [[Data modernism]]’s central [[metaphor]] works by treating humans in the workforce as if they were carbon-based [[Turing machine]]s, and “the firm” a [[distributed network]] of automatons. Such a network is best optimised centrally, from the place with the best view of the big picture: the top.<ref>Curiously, this is not the theory behind distributed computing, which is rather [[end-to-end principle|controlled from the edges]]. But still.</ref>