It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.
As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.
It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.
With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.
Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.
We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.