Didn't read the article. Yes. With every passing year, companies gather more and more data. A lot of knowledge that was once tacit, is now increasingly represented as a 3-D cad model or a trello/asana/jira communication etc.
For example, suppose you wanted to reverse engineer the plastic case on a phone. Today, there would exist multiple cad iterations as well as comments between the production and design teams, possibly associated by location.
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20 years ago, ignoring the fact that we wouldn't be making a plastic case for a smartphone, there might just be some drawings, some internal face to face conversation instead of collaboration across teams over the internet which would be documented and stored on the cloud.
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Tacit knowledge is dying. Metaphorically and literally. It's increasingly documented, stored, and explained through software media. And the people who have it are dying.
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