In defense of a computerized government

I am a scientist,but to be a technocrat would put me out of business as a man. Yet I was eighteen months ago, intent on creating a scientific way of governing. And here today, proud of the tools we have made. Why? Because I believe that cybernetics can do the job better than bureaucracy - and more humanely too.

Stafford Beer, 1926 - 2002

http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/cybernetics/beer/book.pdf

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Exactly. Scientific method applied for true accountability :)

Lets say that the government developed a software to determine the budget for health. The variables would be life expectancy, cancer cases per year, etc etc... Anyone can calculate the budget for health. And being that the code is open source, anyone can fork the program and develop a better calculation algorithm. We are, in fact, removing great part of the 'ideology' from the important decisions.