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.
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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.
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.
