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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. So why doesn’t it work, and what can we do about it?


First, state the manifest failings of [[reg tech]] as we see it: there are two, but they may boil down to the same thing: ''[[rent-seeking]]'' and ''[[iatrogenics|the cure tends, in practice, to be worse than the disease]]''. The proprietary nature of conventional [[reg tech]] means that products are tightly controlled, top-down managed and targeted abstractly at a perceived existing demand and 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 necessarily synchronise with the exact problem a user is trying to solve, as that problem develops.
First, state the manifest failings of [[reg tech]] as we see them present in different ways but boil down to consequences of the same thing: ''[[rent-seeking]]''. ''[[iatrogenics|The cure tends, in practice, to be worse than the disease]]''. Furthermore, 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 necessarily address the exact problem a user is trying to solve, nor continue to cope with it, as that problem develops. Reg technology, if not continually maintained, is innately prone to un[[planned obsolescence]].
==The problem==
==The problem==
===[[Rent-seeking]]===
===[[Rent-seeking]]===