Somewhere inside Malacañang Palace, there is a comforting belief that corruption can be outsmarted by software. Not confronted. Not dismantled. Outcoded. Just add blockchain, say transparency a few times, roll out a pilot, and suddenly decades of theft, patronage, and selective justice politely excuse themselves and leave. It never works that way, but we pretend it does. Yes, Filipinos might
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You can encrypt the records, but you cannot encrypt conscience. And without conscience, every revolution fails before it begins. The Gospel of the Gadget Every few years, there is a new messiah in a box. The computer was going to clean the bureaucracy. The internet was going to democratize truth. The cloud was going to cut red tape. Then AI