Random thought

In this day and age where there is plethora of resources for storing, documenting and analysing data, (ranging from hadoop to tensorflow), one of the biggest revenue generating tool in the domain is Microsoft’s very own excel. Think of it. That shitty product is generating revenue in billions. Ever wondered why? Cause people love causation correlation stories (especially when backed up by some random graph or chart). This is what, most fable tellers prey upon. Give them a random graph, they will create a shitty story out of it as well. A genuine businessman, by his instincts knows what are the basic parameters for monitoring and growing business. Do you think Dhirubhai or JRD or Ford had excel sheets? Doesn’t imply, they didn’t track their progress at all, or went on the basis of trial and error.
Still, I don’t know what would happen to the excel users/interpreters/narrators, if tomorrow google adds a narrative mode to tensorflow. And I so desperately hope they do it. After all, it’s a billion dollar market. You feed tons of GBs of stored data to the app and it creates the most useful story out of it, one that’s more accurate, precise and compelling, compared to any other tale coming from an analyst, PM, consultant, economist (or any other story telling designation). Please do it google! For the heck of it.
No, I don’t hate story tellers. I consume a lot of entertainment, which is mostly narratives. What I hate is billions going to Microsoft, so that some heads in corporations could hear boring stories about numbers, which might not even be accurate, relevant or probably total bull.
I know excel is a bread earner for a lot of people. I don’t wish for their bread to be snatched. What I want for them is, to evolve their storytelling capabilities and apply it in entertainment industry or education industry. Those industries are rehashing old, lousy stories; and do need more content and creators. Evolve, or google (or someone else) will make you obsolete one day.
For context, A few centuries ago, bread earning profession for a majority of humans was menial and often hazardous farm and factory jobs, but the situation has improved with automation in those fields, so brace yourselves for the automation of numeric story telling (one that’s better than astrology).
Before you discard my proposition as a myth, or something from a very distant future. Just remember what Duplex and alphago have accomplished and that is history. I hope for a better and brighter future (one where boring story telling isn’t a rewarded profession).