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 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''.
+And isn’t this the point? ''No-one knows what we will be doing in ineffable, co-evolving future''.
+For all we know it ''won’t'' be [[Change manager|regulatory change programme management]] — though, ahhh, don’t ''bet'' on it — but, if the past is any guide, there ''will'' be something, it ''will'' be [[tedious]], and it sure as hell ''won’t'' be chugging ''génépi'' over a backgammon board in the ''Haute-Savoie''.
 “Ahh,” sayeth the [[digital prophet]]s of our time, “but ''is'' the past any guide? We say it is not. ''[[This time is different]]''. This time the machines will not just be our handmaidens; ''they will replace us altogether''.”
-Okay; let’s run with that for now. Even if that is right, the theory of [[technological unemployment]] assumes:
+Okay; let’s run with that for now. Even if your are right, [[thought leader]] types, your theory of [[technological unemployment]] assumes:
-*that all labour activities in the economy can, and before long, will have been articulated in such a way that they can be entirely, reliably and cheaply carried out by [[artificial intelligence]];
+*that all human activity in the economy can be and, before long ''will'' have been, articulated in a way that can be entirely, reliably and cheaply carried out by [[artificial intelligence]];
-*that once they have been so automated, those activities will nonetheless hold their value and won’t become ''worthless'' overnight, as has every other artisanal craft made redundant by machinery in human history;<ref>Ask yourself: how much would you pay to deliver a first-class email? Or to get your digital photographs developed?</ref>
+*that once they have been so articulated, those activities will nonetheless hold their value and won’t become ''worthless'' overnight, as has every other artisanal craft made redundant by machinery in human history;<ref>Ask yourself: how much would you pay to deliver a first-class email? Or to get your digital photographs developed?</ref>
 *that an economy which has been thus automated to saturation, and to which human participants no longer contribute, will still function more or less as normal, and
 *that, in other words, an entire economy not only can be fully determined —  ''solved'' — but has been: that our current polity is in a fully [[Taxonomy|taxonomised]], [[Taylorism|Taylorised]] end-of-history state in which no new activities or work categories are possible, and all that do currently exist can be more effectively carried out by machine — ''they have abolished the patent office'';