"When you look at new solutions such as these to age-old problems like how we keep the lights on, how we improve neighbourhoods and how we increase ownership...
...you realise how exciting the possibilities of the post-bureaucratic age are.
It has the potential to tackle some of the appalling power asymmetries that abide today.
It has the potential to make this country a better place to live for everyone - and
And it is about so much more than using technology.
It's about using every non-bureaucratic method at our disposal to galvanise, encourage and influence people to do the right thing.
It's nothing less than a national call-to-arms - stimulating enterprise, initiative and personal responsibility.
That's why for me it's the social - rather than the technological - dimension of the post-bureaucratic age that is so exciting.
It goes hand in hand with our vision of creating the big society...
...a place where the dull, stultifying presence of state control is replaced by the liberating and invigorating feeling of social responsibility...
...a place where people have power over their lives, are charged with their own destiny and feel that they can and want to make a difference...
...a place where we recognise that we're all in this together.
So whether it's communities generating their own energy, designing their own neighbourhoods or taking over and running local parks...
...parents setting up new schools or public servants having a stake in the organisation they work in, this is what our policies are all about.
We want to build a society where people come together and work together to solve their problems - and where the government plays an active role in supporting and catalysing that type of social responsibility.
The post-bureaucratic age gives us a historic chance to shift the way we organise our whole affairs...
...from central power to people power...
...from state control to social responsibility...
...from big government to big society...
...and that is why I am so impatient to get on with it."
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