What modern voters know,
and modern governments fear
their voters understand better than they do,
is that for every attempted renewal of governance
through large scale IT projects, the instructions
for 'going forwards' may not only be expensive
but in their implementation may do the opposite
of what their promoters said they wanted to do.
Mistaking 'forward' for 'reverse' is easy to do
with society-wide social change projects.
I only have to think of Margaret Thatcher
who widened The Road to Serfdom, so more folk
could be made to be the serfs to democracy she wanted
them to be, for me to believe that many a leaders aims
become their (and other people's) undoing, when implemented.
But with technology in the drivers seat
there always has to a new back seat driver/
new leader and party to give them directions
for where to not go, only for us to end up there....
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