The Tyranny of Numbers - By Thomas J Bevan - The Commonplace
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The Tyranny of Numbers - By Thomas J Bevan - The Commonplace
They have succeeded, but I wonder at what cost. In their world, happiness is reduced to yet another statistic, data to be sliced, diced, parsed, run through the computer, and, ultimately, inevitably, reduced to spreadsheets. And I can’t think of anything less happy than a spreadsheet.
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