The database tyranny
Posted at Thursday, April 30th, 2009 by andrewBecky Hogge writes in the New Statesman about Whitehall’s centralising instincts and the Database State: You cannot fix society with computers. People fix society, if you let them. That means freeing nurses, teachers, social workers – and their clients – from the relentless tyranny of Whitehall’s cravings for ever more information. A benevolent state must [...]
