I like technology as an enabler of solutions, instead of an end in itself. To be honest, in my naive little way I had thought it was always that really, but now see that perhaps it isn’t.

Obviously we need social and technological innovation to go hand in hand, and the use of tech innovation is perhaps a social innovation anyway. But sometimes the tech impedes or dominates the social and sometimes vice versa. The trick is finding when each is most useful and appropriate to what end. But you will never find consensus on that one!

I think also it’s worth being mindful of how this thinking could become a post-rationalisation for tech fixing and so a PR campaign for business as usual.

Also being wary of falling into the other techno-fix trap, with social innovation being the thing that needs to be fixed by the tech!

Something about the ‘leaving things to chance’ phrase rings an alarm bell too, but can’t quite articulate why. Perhaps a social engineering thing floating about. Back to technology as the servant not the master, people having a say over how it is used etc? No idea!

Good luck with that one, looking forward to hearing how that evolves.