antipopper

We are now listening to Thomas Burg extoll the virtues of just-in-time production, competetive technocracies and “repurposing” content for innovation. I’m raising an eyebrow. I dunno if there’s any point even trying to engage in a dialogue about this, because I think the parties concerned would probably just be talking past each other. Like other geeks, I really am interested in engaging with how our engagements with the technological might sometimes help us, uh, do stuff better. I actually get excited about this. But I guess we need to unveil the entire, unquestioned apparatus that underlies the rhetoric of “productivity” while we do this.

UPDATE: Thomas just revealed that after testing the hybrid social-software/knowledge-management system he was implementing in Austria, 83% of users still thought that such systems entailed “more work”. Ha. Rather than lament that we’re simply in an early adopter phase, in which this stuff hasn’t yet penetrated into daily life, shouldn’t we admit that this is what “productivity” is all about?

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