Anyone with even a passing interest in the evolution of the Conservative Party's policies will have heard both David Cameron and George Osborne on the subject of the post-bureaucratic age. For me that phrase was always so jargoniferous that I found it almost impossible to really understand what it was that they were banging on about. I assumed that voters would be switched off by its impenetrability too.

But just as neo-endogenous growth theory had its moment in the sun, so the post-bureaucratic age sidled out of the shadows yesterday.

Cameron provided a real world example to show exactly what the thinking is. In his health speech yesterday he said: "When Labour were deciding how to store people's health records they commissioned a massive, bureaucratic IT project and spent billions of pounds on a decentralised database. Our approach is to say that today, in the post-bureaucratic age, you don't need a massive central computer to do this. With the web technology that's already out there, one option would be for people to store their health records online. Not only does this put people in control... it also saves a massive amount of money. This is how we'll make the really big savings - not by shaving a bit off the budget here and there..."

So the post bureaucratic age works well for, well for people like DC, and me for that matter. Web-literate, online-banking, tweeting, foursquaring people that trust the net to do the basic tasks. There is something intrinsically tempting about this approach as I sit here typing this on the mac, in my house, glass of chianti, heating on... Of course I should organise my own health records...

But then... what about those people, and there are many, who don't have the computer, who don't have the knowledge, or the inclination to do this. What about the old, the young? I'm not trying to be political about it but you can see where Labour must go - the big ideological dividing line of the digital haves and have nots will feature heavily I suspect.