Yawn.
Precision medicine, AI diagnostics & "global mining" of medical data; personalised education & AI tuition(!) when you could've had the world-class content online FOR FREE since the late 90s; 5G for digital inclusion - if you have a new smartphone... progress.substack.com/p/the-new-prog…
...and then channelling Dom et al. on "light-touch" regulation... in fact, fuck it! let's "simply start over". Plus ARPA(s) - though is "emphatically not a general model for running a country" really enough clear blue water?
The thing is, bits of this aren't wrong: certainly...
...the shift to net-zero, #sustainable energy; the need to (re)make #institutions fit for the 21st (and 22nd & 23rd...) century; also deciding, #democratically, what a good REALLY means for a '#DigitalWellbeingState'.
What really worries me, though, is the inherent glibness...
...and (deliberate?) vagueness in assertions like these 👇
It COULD mean '#GovernmentAsAPlatform' (hardly new) - but it could equally mean "hand it all to @Google & @amazon". Plus, how are Governments to "focus on #ServiceDelivery" if they aren't doing radical #ServiceRedesign?
Fundamentally, trying to rally folks around a 'progressive tech vision' misconceives the stack.
EVERYONE will promise #ShinyObjects and a brighter, #DataDriven future; what we need is good #governance, #accountability, discernable #values & #trust - not centre-left-solutionism.
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