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All automation is considered to be "disintermediation." General usage, however, applies the term disintermediation to much larger scale situations, where the links removed from the chain may be corporate departments, entire professions, or even economic categories (wholesale or retail). These days, online operations continue to put pressure on traditional structures and seek to eliminate the distance between producer and consumer or between author and reader. Once again, the specter of the "information wants to be free" rises to threaten life as we've known it, and, once again, when we look under the ghostly sheet, we find that information doesn't really want to be free; it just wants to look free. So how do we make that happen and still ensure quality content? If you want to make a good bet, try relationships. When sea changes occur, good relationships can operate like good life-boats and poor relationships like concrete galoshes.
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Disintermediation Marches On
All automation is considered to be "disintermediation." Instead of having processes repeated by humans in distinct, repetitive acts, the analyst or programmer identifies the decision points in the process and translates them into machine instructions. Once learned, the machine can repeat the function endle...
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