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I would argue that the shift to "Cogs in a giant automated dispatching machine" already happened with living in an industrialized society, except it's software instead of bureaucracy.

In either case, the organizational "middleware" is under the control of its owners.




Agreed. It feels like we're merely changing the means, not the ends, ie. the system is doing what it's always done, just now it is more efficient.


It already happens to some degree, when you consider how strongly companies treat their stock price as an indicator of what is and isn't working and how much stock trading is automated these days. The companies dance to tunes increasingly played by algorithms.


This is effectively the industrial revolution of knowledge workers & the mobile workforce.

We found things for everyone to do, but if history may be a guide, we could be in for 30-80 years of adjustment.




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