Imagine a corporate world where every decision is made by a "Data Robot"—a system that only looks at structured spreadsheets. Devlin's "story" is a critique of this rigid architecture, which he helped build in the 1980s as one of the founding fathers of data warehousing.

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    If you are reading the PDF, here are the critical concepts Devlin discusses: