The document discusses using computers and data to rethink how enterprises are run. It advocates burning, or destroying, outdated paper-based systems and instead gathering and using government data in digital form. Questions are raised about how to best utilize computers within enterprises and how the nature of enterprises may change given the existence of computers and ability to analyze large amounts of digital data.

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Burn the digital paper!
A call to arms

2. Government Data
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3. 1. Amazement
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4. Government Data
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5. 2. Digital paper
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11. 3. Gather up as data
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20. Questions?

21. 4. Feedback loops
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22. Government Data
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25. Government Data
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26. The question which asks how to use the
computer in the enterprise, is, in short, the
wrong question.
A better formulation is to ask how the enterprise
should be run given that computers exist.
The best version of all is the question asking
what, given computers, the enterprise now is.
- Stafford Beer, “Brain of the Firm”, 1972

27. Questions?