National budget now available as nineteen-hour audiobook
Listeners get the same figures with considerably more sentences.
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The Great Summarisation
Ordinary usage · October 2034
Definition
The Great Summarisation describes the broad movement from complete documents to summaries, bullets and dashboards in ordinary information consumption.
Ordinary arrangements
The resulting records were efficient to use but reduced encounters with length, digression and the experience of reaching an answer gradually. Long-form listening, complete paper editions and unsummarised reading rooms now occupy separate markets.
Boundaries
A complete text does not need to be harder to understand. Its market distinction is that somebody can spend time with the parts a summary would omit.
Related reporting
Summary company’s closure notice longer than its last seven-word summary
The full date survived in the archive.
Meeting notes refuse to remember date more clearly than note-taker
A request to remove the uncertainty has not improved the note-taker’s memory.
A reference record describes an arrangement. It does not establish its sufficiency.