The Editor Speaks: Forms
How many of us like filling in forms?
If you do, you need to be assessed. Please fill in this form. And if you were assessed less than three years ago you must be reassessed. Please fill in this form.
Where do you send this form?
To government.
The government department that deals with this assessment or reassessment is understaffed so the load is heavy?
Therefore, will anyone actually read this assessment or reassessment in quick time so that you can receive any benefit from your desire to fill in forms?
Before you start wondering if I have actually gone mad and need assessing let me tell you, yes, I am joking about a department in government that deals with persons who like to fill in forms.
However……
We receive forms to be filled in for seemingly everything imaginable and unimaginable and for every form filled in and sent off, either handwritten or via electronic means, someone has to read it and file it, normally both manually (paper document filing) or computer.
Only this week the Needs Assessment Unit announced payments to those on social assistance are due to increase. Before they can get the increased allowance, if they have not been assessed since 1 July 2015, they must be reassessed.
If the reassessment process is not completed, and it involves not only filling in again the forms, they have to once again supply all the supporting documents that government almost certainly already has copies of.
The Public Accounts Committee have been told that the reassessment hasn’t been done every year because of the heavy workload at the NAU.
“Failure to comply by this deadline will result in payments initially being placed on hold,” officials warned.
With all the reassessment that will have to be done, the NAU that is already under a heavy workload, how can it possibly execute all this reassessment properly and within the time frame?
I tried to find out how many forms the average person has to fill out in a year and came up with a blank.
We have to fill in a form for nearly everything and someone has to read them.
Isn’t there a better and quicker way?
There is. Microchips inserted into your brain and scanned so you become a human cyborg.
It sounds like science fiction.
It is already here.
In an article published by the UK’s SUN it starts:
“That bloke standing next to you at the bus stop might have had laser eye surgery so he can ditch his glasses.
“The woman sat next to you could be hiding an implant under the skin which slowly releases hormones to stop her from getting pregnant.
“Nans and granddads across the nation come installed with cutting-edge technology installed just to boost their hearing and vision seeing or help them walk with comfort.
“We’re preparing ourselves for the next form of evolution in which humans will merge with artificial intelligence, becoming one with computers.”
The journalist underwent a quick and painless operation to have a micro chip inserted into the back of his hand. The chip then transmitted all the information about himself to a computer.
The Dr (Kramer) believes this is just a tiny step in a new phase of evolution in which humans will one day become “transspecies”.
He reckons within 60 years we will see the rise of biotech where you can add features to your body by printing them on a device and inserting it into your body as biological tissue.
“It won’t be an implant anymore because it’s your own DNA,” he says.
Quite frankly, after reading the whole article I believe I would rather fill out those forms. I am ready to be assessed and reassessed.
