[rightbyte]

> The ability to collate, search, and analyze data used to require labor power, it does not anymore.

This is all baloney. There is noone organising the information and documents in "modern" companies. There is just a rolling reset of knowledge with an average lifetime of about three years.

> Having physical pieces of paper as a fungible business tool is still something used by a lot of firms but they are simply behind the times,

They are not behind their times. They are using a system that actually works.

[7952]

I wish we could just return to the basics for knowledge management. Have bibliographic databases and enforce proper referencing. Have a numbering system to locate things and a standardised classification system. And employ actual people to manage it.

[7speter]

This is going to cut into profits, for sure.