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There is never enough, which causes never-ending demands to obtain our personal information. We are given a name at birth, a continuum of naming, an individual life form. References to who we are – linked in the chain of birth to death.                                       

Due to our human capability of creating organisation, the naming keeps expanding.

We are given a Census, for quantifying information of certain things we do in living life, for the official planning of governments – imaginations for everyone’s tomorrows.

Where is tomorrow, who owns it? Someone said, tomorrow never comes.

Is owning tomorrow controlling the future, by using the past information of other life forms?

Who knows? MyGov’s imagination is not the fact of today. If not supplying the required information a big penalty has to be paid, one that many people can’t afford. An incentive to comply with tomorrow’s imaginations.

We the people could demand a fact-finding census of all government organisational procedure, not just their reporting of it. A census that clarifies their detailed actions, spending patterns and intentions. For ‘the people’ to know what ‘they’ do, in this game of give and take. Can the AIs of MyGov provide all this information?

R Podhajsky, Ocean Shores



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