Enabling many intermediaries to build many data access services - of many shapes & experiences - is the way...

Yes, several. Some only about reporting (FixMyStreet), some as side-benefits to other services (Waze). I remember hearing of conversations with Waze about getting some of their driver-reported data to bits of public sector that could act on it, but I can't remember how far they got

Things like maps and data about pothole fixing performance ~might~ be useful for the everyday person, but if it was coupled with stuff that could also encourage actions then perhaps it might be a lot more useful

The actual gov.uk pothole reporting thingy - which isn't linked - expects the person using it to know the postcode of the road they found a pothole on

www.gov.uk/report-pothole

No

maps.dft.gov.uk/local-road-m...

Spookily I read his Daemon in December...

Or imaginary friends of course, like Fred and Eric

Anyway, I'd like to read something about ppl using AI chatbots as companions that places it into context of humans using other non-conscious things as companions - teddy bears, rocks, printers, &c

Chatbots might be more plausible than some other stuff but there's an underlying human thing here

Its kind of the same mistake that Starmer made in thinking that Mandelsons claimed capabilities outweigh his multiple, to be polite..., disgraces over 3 (three!) decades

As I've got none of those three with me I'll probably be turning up and hoping that a physical driving licence, an old man face, and a smile passes the in-person test...