So here are a few examples oh we are going to bring this thinking to some of the big problems we face.
I'm not going to choose the obvious ones - school choice, bidding for Government contracts...
...Instead I'm going to choose ones where the state would seem always to have a bigger role.
So, first, there's the energy we consume.
We know the issues - cost, climate change, energy security.
How can the ideas behind the post-bureaucratic age help us to deal with these problems?
First, we can make it more appealing for people to generate their own energy by introducing financial incentives.
So we will introduce a system of feed-in tariffs that pay people for the excess energy they generate.
Just look at Germany, which is leading the world in microgeneration, to see the kind of positive impact this will have.
Next, we can take away some of the hassle involved in doing the right thing.
So we'll give every home a smart meter so people can calculate how much energy they are generating and how much they are selling back to the National Grid.
Then, we need to apply gentle social pressure on people to bring down their energy use.
So just as they're doing in California, we will make each energy bill come with an illustration of how much energy people's neighbours are using in comparison to their own usage...
...inspiring them to consume less in competition.
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