I remember attending a panel discussion where civil servant heading the new “Universal Credit” benefit was answering questions about the UK civil service use of agile software development. The guy was extremely tall, super-photogenic and very well spoken - but extremely clueless about technology. “the Senior Civil Service is a monoculture and reacts very badly to those outside that culture” That’s the impression I got - whatever that guy does - it happens in a bubble, far, far away from technology. The impression I got was the “technology side” of things is some cheap, dirty process that we export to the lowest bidder in some other part of the world. An Alan Kay/ Bret Victor vision of “computational thinking” hasn’t been conceived of by dinosaurs of that kind…