.... Such predictions assume, Aethelric, that Artificial Incompetence actually works as advertised, and to the extent it's hyped up to. Personally I doubt it can (but I've made that argument before). That aside, all it'll take is one *prangissimo* sufficiently large to unbalance the stock market, and sufficiently egregious to get through the cloud of Natural Incompetence in board rooms, and the market for this particular brand of snake oil will implode. But don't worry --- there'll be another brand along next week.