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{{a|g|'''From the “{{t|Great lies of today}}{{tm}}” series'''<br>}}As we race to the bottom | {{a|g| | ||
[[File:BASIC.png|450px|thumb|center|Cutting edge [[reg tech]], yesterday]] | |||
'''From the “{{t|Great lies of today}}{{tm}}” series'''<br>}}As we race to the, er, bottom; in that dystopian future where [[chatbot]]s will wipe our grandparents’ arses and [[Rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated - technology article|all roles in all banking]] will be carried out by Marvin the paranoid android—like, the ''same'' machine will do the lot; buyer and seller; banker and client, having brute-force-solved human nature right?—we cannot help but pause and remark at the last great anomaly, since it seems to stand between us and these sunlit uplands of blissful [[technological unemployment]] that await us: that is, how goddamn ''expensive'' any kind of technology implementation is. No matter ''how'' crappy. | |||
Not just buying an | Not just buying an “application” — “[[Software as a service|software as a service]]”, ''naturellement'' — that reviews and unimpressively marks up [[confidentiality agreement]]s for half a million bucks a year, but even a small piece of development work to an existing system, just to make sure it does something that any two-bit home-made iPhone app can do faultlessly — is budgeted to take six months and cost $800k. How is that? | ||
Nice work if you can get it, as a programmer, I guess. But in the meantime, as long as it costs half a mill to add a “download to excel” button, we should resign ourselves to wiping pop’s behind, once we’re back from the office, for a few years yet. | |||
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*The [[singularity]] | |||
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