This is very true, and not something that people talk about a lot.
My work occasionally intersects with stuff called "knowledge management," and I am increasingly of the opinion that KM has two purposes: 1. Extract information from baby boomers before they all retire and take with them a lot of the knowledge they haven't, for a variety of reasons, shared 2. Extract information from expensive, experienced, competent people and replace them with inexpensive people who do not yet have experience or competence (and may not ever)
This stuff is everywhere, and I hate it. Just because the only thing you see someone do is easily replaced by a computer database, does not mean that is the only thing they do.
(I have the problem that my main function is writing, and everyone can do that....)
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My work occasionally intersects with stuff called "knowledge management," and I am increasingly of the opinion that KM has two purposes:
1. Extract information from baby boomers before they all retire and take with them a lot of the knowledge they haven't, for a variety of reasons, shared
2. Extract information from expensive, experienced, competent people and replace them with inexpensive people who do not yet have experience or competence (and may not ever)
This stuff is everywhere, and I hate it. Just because the only thing you see someone do is easily replaced by a computer database, does not mean that is the only thing they do.
(I have the problem that my main function is writing, and everyone can do that....)