2025-12-28
I have tended to avoid too much stuff on CBDCs and so on, on the basis that there's a lot of fear mongering about it and plenty of people who think they know exactly what's going on and probably don't.
I don't know whether Andrew Orlowski is any better informed than others, but if you have an interest, and have the best part of an hour to hand, this may be for you. He strikes me as reasonable if you still consider that the government is largely motivated by good intentions, as I am sure many of the individuals involved are. But much like the NHS, they are likely good people controlled by an unresponsive hierarchy which may not share their motivation. Add in involvement of the "private sector" and the politics of motivations soon proliferate ...
"we'll never do anything as stupid again"
Are you sure?
Have you factored in that complaint, common to both large IT projects and government projects and known in the trade as "mission creep"? Nah, of course we need to redesign it as we go along ...
I still believe that no major project should be undertaken in the absence of a formal analysis of the likely motivations of the entities involved in the project.
That we don't do this is the reason why water companies don't invest in their infrastructure and our energy projects are completely disconnected from the realities of energy distribution through a grid that was never designed for unpredictable power generation scenarios.
Neither result in satisfied customers because the customers also have conflicting motivations, like needing to use power in cold weather and more water when it's hot. Who would have thought it?
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