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The cult of technology can be disturbing. For years, a scruffy
bunch of people within organizations went around muttering: “A
Portal. A Portal. What we need is a Portal.”
Some of these people became seriously disturbed and could be
found in meetings waving their arms wildly and chanting: “All
hail Great Portal! Solver of the internet problem.”
These people had intranets full of out-of-date, badly written
content, and applications that were terribly designed and
horrible to use. And so they believed in the magical portal
software that would transform everything. Of course, it didn’t,
and in fact often made the problems worse.