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 Now if something about this scenario nudges your implausibility hooter, you would not be alone: there are at least two of us.
-For one thing, from our [[perspective chauvinism|vantage point]], recent experience has been some kind of [[Cambrian explosion]] lasting thirty-odd years, but so far this has had ''quite the opposite effect''. There is more work now than ever. Granted, [[internal audit]], software [[change manager|change management]] and operations analytics might not be the effervescent future we envisaged as wild undergraduate dreamers — but had anyone known, would they have told us? [[Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?]] Knowing our actual future might have crushed the very will to power within each of us, like a painted flower. In any case, that was then: now that [[book of work]] is here and well and truly barricades the way to that chessboard in Στούπα.
+For one thing, from our [[perspective chauvinism|vantage point]], the last thirty-odd years have been one long technological [[Cambrian explosion]], but so far  ''no sign of extra leisure time''. Indeed, it has been quite the opposite experience.
+''There is more work now than ever.''
+Granted, a lot of it is ''crap'' work: [[internal audit]], software [[change manager|change management]] and operations analytics might not be the effervescent future we envisaged as wild undergraduate dreamers — but had anyone known, would they have told us? [[Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?]] Knowing our actual future might have crushed the very will to power within each of us, like a painted flower.
+In any case, that was then: now that [[book of work]] is here, it is overwhelming, and it is well and truly barricading the way to that chessboard in Στούπα.
 And isn’t this the point? ''No-one'' knows what we might wind up doing in ineffable, co-evolving future: for all we know it might ''not'' be regulatory change programme management — but, ahhh, don’t bet on it — but if the past, ancient and modern, is any guide there will be something, it will be [[tedious]], and it sure as hell ain’t going to be chugging ''génépi'' over a backgammon board in the ''Haute-Savoie''.