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[[File:Hub.jpg|thumb|center|450px|[[CeleryHub]], as we shall call it, yesterday]]}} | [[File:Hub.jpg|thumb|center|450px|[[CeleryHub]], as we shall call it, yesterday]]}} | ||
The reg tech proposition: automation, network, disintermediation is obvious. So why doesn’t it work, and what can we do about it? | The reg tech proposition: automation, network, disintermediation is obvious. We could replace this laborious, error-prone, analogue negotiation process with a digital, autheticated, governed, audited, straight-through processed, ''fast'' online interaction. So why doesn’t it work, and what can we do about it? | ||
The failings of [[reg tech]] present in different ways but boil down to the same thing: ''[[rent-seeking]]''. | |||
*Because the provider’s primary interest is its annuity, ''[[iatrogenics|the cure tends, in practice, to be worse than the disease]]''. | |||
*The [[proprietary]] nature of conventional [[reg tech]] means it is tightly controlled, top-down managed and targeted ''abstractly'' at a ''perceived'' demand and an ''anticipated'' future state,<ref>[[Thought leader]]s are no better at predicting the future of [[Legal services delivery|legal services]] than they have been at anything else.</ref> neither of which will neatly address the exact problem a ''specific'' user is trying to solve as that problem develops. Therefore [[reg tech]], if not continually maintained, is innately prone to [[planned obsolescence|unplanned obsolescence]]. And maintenance means ''rent''. | |||
*The future imagined by [[thought leader]]s of the [[reg tech]] space was forged in the ''past''. As other imagined futures in the past — flying cars, self-cleaning tablecloths, colonisation of Mars — predicting the future is hard to get right. The answer is open architecture: the internet was revolutionary because it imagined ''no'' future, but left that — and continues to leave it, right? —to users to imagine as they go. But “leaving everything to the user” doesn’t leave a rentier capitalist much to do, so rent-seeking applications constrain themselves, requiring paid-for development, and consigning themselves to ultimate [[obsolescence]]. | |||
==The problem== | ==The problem== | ||
===[[Rent-seeking]]=== | ===[[Rent-seeking]]=== | ||