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Can confirm. I just renewed my Spanish DNIe last summer and not only was the whole process super smooth and took only a few minutes, but the certificate works o

• wkat4242 3y ago
  Japan was miles ahead in the early 2000s but as some say, being ahead can also be a burden. And as a deeply traditional society they tend to cling to things that work. I heard that even faxes are still used there. In Austria too by the way but that's more because of an obscure legal status thing.
  • AnthonyMouse 3y ago
    That's not a consequence of being ahead, it's a consequence of enough time passing if you do it at all. The more centralized a system is, the more it ossifies. The more people there are to get used to the status quo and incur large costs if anything changes, the more change gets fought. Third parties get their hooks into it, benefit from the status quo and put substantial resources behind preventing changes that are unambiguously improvements -- "institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." The only way to avoid it is to never build it to begin with. Or tear it down as soon as possible if you're too late to stop it from existing but not too late to have everyone fighting to preserve their rents if you try to get rid of it.