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In any case, the unknowable ''then'' has coagulated into a crushing ''now'', and the reality is this: ''there is more work to do now than ever.'' Work is here, it is overwhelming, it is debilitating, and it is barricading the way to that chessboard in Στούπα, with no end in sight. | In any case, the unknowable ''then'' has coagulated into a crushing ''now'', and the reality is this: ''there is more work to do now than ever.'' Work is here, it is overwhelming, it is debilitating, and it is barricading the way to that chessboard in Στούπα, with no end in sight. | ||
The millenarians ask us to believe that a 5,000-year-old asymptote will suddenly invert. But ''how''? ''When''? ''Why''? ''No-one knows what we will be doing in ineffable, co-evolving future'': ''we'' don’t, and | The millenarians ask us to believe that a 5,000-year-old asymptote will suddenly invert. But ''how''? ''When''? ''Why''? ''No-one knows what we will be doing in ineffable, co-evolving future'': ''we'' don’t, and [[chatbot]]s ''definitely'' don’t. It might not be [[Change manager|regulatory change programme management]] (though, ahhh, don’t ''bet'' on it) but, if the past is any guide, it ''will'' be something, it ''will'' be [[tedious]], and it sure as hell ''won’t'' be slugging back ''génépi'' over a backgammon board in the ''Haute-Savoie''. | ||
“Ahh,” say the [[digital prophet]]s of our time, “but ''is'' the past any guide? We say it is not.<ref>They have learned the compliance mantra: [[Past results are no guarantee of future performance]].</ref> ''[[This time is different]]''. This time the machines will ''not'' just be our handmaidens; ''they will replace us altogether''.” | “Ahh,” say the [[digital prophet]]s of our time, “but ''is'' the past any guide? We say it is not.<ref>They have learned the compliance mantra: [[Past results are no guarantee of future performance]].</ref> ''[[This time is different]]''. This time the machines will ''not'' just be our handmaidens; ''they will replace us altogether''.” | ||