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Big Data and the bureaucratization of life

As technology and Big Data advance, they enable the near-total bureaucratization of life—despite the fact that the promise of technology was exactly the opposite, to liberate life from bureaucracy. This dovetails with the trend in job automation: the more bureaucratic a job becomes the easier it is to automate.

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