Technology promised to save us effort, then quietly reorganised civilisation around the effort required to sustain technology.
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technological recursion
Tag: organisational complexity
Large public institutions drift not through incompetence but because the simplified models they use to govern gradually diverge from the complex realities they regulate; the principles outlined here describe how that drift can be recognised and corrected before harm accumulates. Why Representational Drift Matters Large institutions cannot interact with reality directly. They act through representations: […]
Service management systems are plagued by managerial failure. The primary error is the belief that regulatory oversight exists to eradicate delay, to accelerate everything. The result is a chaotic environment in which every actor attempts to displace temporal and material costs onto other people, times, and places – both within and beyond the organisation. This […]
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