The Government Machine, Jon To trace the mechanization of government work in Britain from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. In order to show how mechanization followed the popular depiction of government as a machine like, with British civil servants cast as a component of "government machinery" general purpose, indeed, he believes a general purpose computer that today is the apotheosis of the civil servants. To be argued that the change of government capacity has been dependent on the application of new technologies, and that the adoption of new technology has been dependent on the government's vision and the fundamental model of organization.