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SciFi thought 'Gray Goo' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo ) was a possible end of the world situation.

Instead, we have an informational-goo. Software is eating the world, turning everything into bitstreams, and contaminating everything it touches as more things become digitised, more things can become digitised. And we're being flooded, swamped, clogged up, with unusably too much data while at the same time adding more at accelerating rates.

It's a kind of digibesity and leads to organizational digibetus and immobility as every employee trapses round through a sludge of gigabytes of old email and log data, reports slow against bloated databases, decisions drag as more and more people need to read more and more procedures and look up references in ever-bigger, ever-slower reference silos.

It's a kind of global hoarding disorder.

I wonder what the mid-stages and end-game of a Gray G0o01100 catastrophe is?




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