Having someone say that, for example, “from tomorrow all your health data will be in Google Docs!” is likely to generate caos and harm people. Democratic government must operate on scales measured in decades, not months, and make sure to be as inclusive as possible (remote island with satellite internet? Probably will oppose any solution with 80mb of single-page JS. Etc etc). This makes for slow progress. It’s just how it is. Add to that the continuous jockeying of vendors, and poor training of administrative elites (a very underestimated problem in many countries)...
Modern society is just big and complex, no matter how hard we wish that weren’t the case.
"“from tomorrow all your health data will be in Google Docs"
Who is advocating that? Nobody. I didn't even infer that.
What I want is some highly talented and organized people, like those from Google, to take over IT for Healthcare in Canada, and then shift our non-existent IT solutions over to something that works. Because right now it's a non-existent bureaucratic mess.
"Modern society is just big and complex, no matter how hard we wish that weren’t the case"
I didn't say it wasn't.
But that doesn't mean that many governments aren't supremely inefficient in many areas. Canadian Healthcare IT being a big one.
CGI, a Canadian IT company spent $2B making the Obamacare sign up website - something a handful of Google Engineers had to come in and fix. They basically wrote much of it from scratch.
But one person can say "We are now at war!" and the missiles start flying. That seems like a much more fraught decision than whether or not to stay on daylight saving time.
Modern society is just big and complex, no matter how hard we wish that weren’t the case.