Things haven't been going so smoothly around here for the last... years, so one has to take small wins as they arrive. I took the car for the mandatory inspection (that the Police reminded me about with a fine a few days ago) and was expecting it to go much like everything else has gone, poorly. But, the car passed with only a couple blown bulbs to repair. It is a relief as even though I keep my car in pretty good condition, it is eight years old and things start to wear.
It is actually pretty good that they have the mandatory inspection as it means that cars on the road are in relatively good condition and in decent running order despite their age. but, I hate the idea of mandatory, especially since there are costs involved to get the inspection done by private companies.
Whenever I hear the word compulsory it almost sounds like a challenge to not do something. It has some kind of reverse psychology effect on me that rather than inspiring action, drives procrastination. This is especially true when it is being delivered by an authority that I do not trust to make good decisions. There is very little that governments do well enough that others couldn't do better.
One area that is going to change significantly in the close future is the role of blockchains in keeping track of citizen interactions. An entire lifetime from start to finish will be recorded and searchable. This will create a lot of streamlining and reduction in administration but at the same time, it is a little scary to think that all of it will be available on the same chain.
However, if we take out the idea of bad actors (obviously always a problem), the potential to simplify all manner of processes that are currently complex and rarely interact well together is huge. The other massive potential is of course the unifying of processes across countries. It is no surprise that some nations handle administrative processes better than others and some have very little at all and bribery is the oil.
Perhaps a cleaning up of processes would bring with it more transparency as well as more ability to visualize what is actually happening in a population. When it comes to the near inevitability of things like universal basic income being incorporated, blockchain technology is going to prove instrumental in delivery and tracking, as will the many algorithms (bots) that trawl the data points.
I am also interested to see if everyone's medical data for example was connected to the same chain and was comparable against the data of other countries, cheaply and easily, would patterns emerge that indicate how to approach illness or dysfunction of various types. Would seeing the food purchase habits of populations compared with medical information at a granular level give the ability to better counteract things like childhood obesity? Most likely.
With a lot of data points observed over time cheaply and easily, the amount of real-world issues we would be able to tackle with effective strategies would be massive and that would improve the allocation of resources as well as create jobs in the process of improving lives.
Of course, this is without bad actors... most likely, the technology that could empower will be used to enslave and the delivery method for information that could educate will be used to advertise. Instead of facilitating health and spread of wealth, it will be used to create narrow wealth, no matter the human costs.
History has the tendency to repeat and humans are predictable by nature.
Well, my car doesn't need it's next compulsory inspection until 2020. I wonder where we will be then?
Taraz
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The mandatory inspection is a good thing IMO. It's one of those things that the government gets right. When the inspections were delegated to the private sector, things got clearly better. Competition is keeping the prices in check and the level of service has clearly improved. The engineer you meet is no longer a government employee at a liberty to treat you coldly and sometimes disrespectfully but a service provider you can ask for tips to better maintain your car. I have often followed the engineer to the hall and asked questions during the inspection and benefited from the engineer's expertise. You can get much more detailed information than from the official form they print out for you.
I agree. I think it has been private since I have been here but I do prefer private service over government drudgery.
I totally agree that efficiency is nowhere to be found in government. Yet people still demand the free stuff they can provide at any cost.
We do not have auto inspections in my state. but then again here we do not have the population to support it. However you can be fined for a broken light or warn tires. People are also motivated to keep their cars in top condition to avoid being broke down in no man's land.
The good should outweigh the bad by a large margin. This is still new and will take years to be fully implemented on that type of scale
People love to 'delegate' their money to people who are going to use it poorly...
Huummmm good thing we don't know any of them personally ;)
I can relate to that. The more someone tells me that I can't do something, the more I want to do it.
This is very true, as human beings we have the habit of not doing what we are commanded, however in the future things could change.
Excellent post friend! it has been a pleasure to read you
Reverse psychology is i guess the reason why folks are in crypto,the biggest number of people in crypto are just tired of rules by the authorities!!!
The blockchain will really streamline mant hings and weed out all these middlemen!The world is going to be blockchained in the next 10 years!
no one respects authority anymore... ;)
Hi Taraz. maybe the luck is starting to turn. A couple of bulbs is nothing. Glad it went smoothly.
Well, if you saw some of the wrecks driving around where we are you would demand regular inspections especially considering the accidents caused by them on the roads, but I do get your point. We do give too much for way too little and do very little to change the way these wastages are administered.
The human condition strikes again
Health records on the blockchain? Being able to see what people purchase? I think you were standing to long by the exhaust pipe while they were inspecting your car and got a bit to many fumes. Nobodies going to go for open access of their medical records and purchases.