Another Price Worth Paying

Just as moisture provision privatisers promised greater efficiency and lower bills, and delivered rivers of sewage and poisoned tap-water; just as successive NHS "reformers" promised better care and delivered increased bureaucracy and a demoralised workforce; so the great infoslop boom appears to be promising, mirabile dictu, rather better than it intends to deliver. The companies in charge of building a water consumption emporium in Scotland trumpeted their intention to power their blanched cyberpachyderm entirely from renewables, while being well aware that no realistic prospect exists of their doing any such thing. Naturally, His Majesty's Government waved the project through with a moderate and sensible snigger of complaisance: when set against the potential for sackings, surveillance and pocket-picking, the environmental consequences of the infoslop boom are a metter of small concern.