In the government there is no time to prevent problems by spending a little now. We are too busy dealing with the large problems (clearly due to our predecessors) whereupon they waited until it’s too late and there’s no way  for us to recover from those problems, except to shift it forward unto the next [...]

Control is one of those things that is very hard for people to give up, even when all the evidence is so easy to see from the outside. Why? Because people who have control take it personally if (for sometimes external reasons) they begin to lose control. Control means “owning the power to decide” In [...]

Should the government experiment with social media and web technology? The question I always have is “who does the government report to” ? The naive, pat answer is: “the people”. The problem is that people have to mobilize and centralize their opinions and power, in order to effect this power to change government. The lag time, and [...]