We need full sized mobile hospitals on trains, that can move into any area of the world to provide emergency service at scale. Be it for a pandemic or something like this.
Those who pay, get to set the agenda. And its hard to convince a CEO who thinks money can move heaven and earth, that his influence should be limited by biology and physics.
Does this mean the controll freak middle class of managers will be thinned out? If there is no need to physically check for your presence "give me a update i dont understand" then there seems to be a implicit bigger trust in your competence.
Sweden has euthanized a large part of of its elderly population with covid19 in the bygone months. Euthanized as in "not even considered any treatment except palliative treatment".
If the circumstances were not that extra-ordinary, people would demand for swedens leader ship to be shipped to Den Haag.
This is still a tech site? As in people regularly share warning stories about how poking complex systems with a stick can escalate and those who encourage poking are sentenced to the quaries as a warning afterwards?
The problem is with the monopol on violence the government is supossed to have. Today, anyone rich enough can have violence or the threat of violence, at a industrial scale like government used to have them. Bezos or Musk could have a rod of god in orbit, and you wouldnt even know.
And to prevent this from escalating, as artefacts are getting ever denser, in information, energy and potential - you get a panopticon. Those liberal ideas, where forged in a world, where the peak of energy density and danger was a musket.
This world is gone. To prevent it from coming back, we get the panopticon.
My marketing million outruns your security billion every day of the weak. There are no informed deciders, that is a delusion of "anyone" can walk this deep. That sort of delusion got us the year of the linux-desktop.