WRITTEN ON August 19th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized

John Suffolk has a post on PCs and security – quite fun. And I managed to comment on it without any trouble this time, which is a relief:

Plain fact is people have powerful PCs and Macs and phones and access to the Internet and do loads of stuff with it. So I’d question your language about making it “human-proof” It could always be better designed, for sure, and easier to use.

But the question is how can we get organisations, including service-providing government departments, to trust the individual’s technology and to trust and act on the will of the individual as expressed through their tech.

That’s where the greatest opportunity for utility, savings and avoiding waste reside, I think, as well as restoration of trust in the “relationship” between individual and state.

I never realised, when Richard Allan first explained to me about Doug Engelbart and the mother of all demos, how deep, how current and how enduring the divide between “control” and “augment” would prove to be.