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====The persistence of rubbish==== | ====The persistence of rubbish==== | ||
{{Singularity and perspective chauvinism}} | |||
And if so, it’s worth asking again, ''how come everything seems so joyless and glum''? Are we ''missing'' something? | |||
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 [[sixteenth law of worker entropy]].</ref> | 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 [[sixteenth law of worker entropy]].</ref> | ||
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We present therefore the [[JC]]’s [[sixteenth law of worker entropy]] — the “[[law of conservation of tedium]]”: | We present therefore the [[JC]]’s [[sixteenth law of worker entropy]] — the “[[law of conservation of tedium]]”: | ||
{{quote|The total amount of tedium in an isolated system remains constant. Tedium can be neither created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed from one form to another, or transferred from one system to another.}} | {{quote|The total amount of tedium in an isolated system remains constant. Tedium can be neither created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed from one form to another, or transferred from one system to another.}} | ||
====Taylorism==== | ====Taylorism==== | ||
None 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. | None 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. | ||