MS: Broadly, do you think government's focus on producing "final" projects hinders progress?
DE: Absolutely. Government's obsession with a "final" product is in many ways a relic of the industrial era. The idea that only a finished product can be released to the public -- a public whose needs both the private and public sector often misunderstand -- means that huge cycles are wasted, and launch times delayed, in perfecting programs and products that often don't hit the mark. Everything is a beta today because almost everything can be improved on the fly. What is saddest about this obsession with final products is that it isn't connected to what government does or the technologies. It's a collectively imagined limitation.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/the-state-of-open-government-i.html
Inteview with David Eaves and Mac Slocum of O'Reilly Media.
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