Economy, quickness, simplicity, effectiveness, comfort. Let's say you have a smart-card as a digital ID, you need a new one because the one you have is expirin

Economy, quickness, simplicity, effectiveness, comfort. Let's say you have a smart-card as a digital ID, you need a new one because the one you have is expiring. With classic model you go to a certain office in a certain timeframe to do that. In a digital world you order the new one from you desktop, being identified enough, you can than take a photo directly from your cam, then via mail you get the new one, you confirm you have it in hand with the card itself and you get a new pin. Done. The same if you lost an ID. There is no need to force smartphones crapplications and alike to be digital. Then you have your health infos in the health system of your country, any doctor with your ID and their own could access all your relevant records. At a supermarket you can prove your identity simply passing the card on a reader, the sole data share is "you can buy alcohol or not". To open an account with a bank, you just authenticate yourself to a public system that gives the banks the relevant data they legally need and nothing more, you know they could ask for something else but all requests are optional. You purchase a home? You can sign the contract from remote with your ID. You can retrieve the relevant docs at any time from the relevant public administration as a PADES signed pdf/a and so on. All these things simplify life and reduce time and cost spent in doing anything. Of course yes, the same passage could be used to act against you in a dictatorship and so on, but the bar is simple: knowing the tech means imposing furor populi a good one, so for instance smart cards and not smartphone craplications, for instance IDs, not "digital wallets" and so on. Try to keep the old system means leaving few interested party pushing their own favorite solution against all others interests. As have always happened...