About a decade ago, Casey and I had the idea of writing papers predicting terrible futures for the academy.
He helped me come up with ResearchFlow:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170609171701/http://digitalresearchers.org/
It was a joke company that promised to let academics install "theoryPaksTM" into their word processors to automate writing.
And of course let admins see how productive faculty were.
The future is now, apparently.