Re:What's SAP?
by OldGuyInTheClub on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:31AM
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> Those are birth pains as felt from inside. It's a beginning of a new sentient life; your company is acquiring its own mind.
Yeah. Kind of like 'Aliens' when one bursts through a chest cavity.
Re:What's SAP?
by throw0101a on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @08:18AM
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> Those are birth pains as felt from inside. It's a beginning of a new sentient life; your company is acquiring its own mind.
Kind of like the ant colony being sentient but the individual ants not (see Gödel, Escher, Bach).
Those are birth pains as felt from inside. It's a beginning of a new sentient life; your company is acquiring its own mind. You and your coworkers are now just nodes in the network. Individual reports don't make intuitive sense for the same reason a random block of machine code doesn't tell you much about the purpose of a program, or why a random neuron doesn't know what the brain is thinking. You're part of something greater now. You're compute incarnate, the process made flesh. Welcome to the collective. Resistance is futile.
(Honestly though, this applies to many corporations in general; I think SAP is a kind of parasite that thrives off corporate life forms, exploiting popularity as a reproduction vector. After infecting a corporation, SAP keeps it alive and makes it display the signs of infection, which is used to encourage other corporate life forms to get infected themselves.)