because i'm rereading Kill It With Fire, reminded about how the author (Marianne Bellotti) talks about customer/industry fit/not fit - basically just because you made a cool thing doesn't mean anyone is going to want it. this situation with govt trying to force ai adoption as a writ large good thing
...seems to hinge on their desperation for productivity increases, which they talk about at levels of abstraction that don't seem to map to appreciating how small/medium sized businesses actually function? it's a weird one.
reminding me of how data trust conversations would arrive at the place of ok let's get into it in reality: sectoral use, use cases, or sand boxes (my favourite) - at which point the hope was that inefficiencies of corporate governance would... magically disappear? in highly-regulated industries?
something fun about the government and government funded think tanks of a pretty slow-motion cultural change country being like - hey, small and medium-sized businesses, the heart and soul of our economy, please go fafo?