Peter Hopkins: Is the pensions dashboard really the magic bullet?

There are examples of nascent or obsolete technologies all around us. Some are ridiculed (think Sinclair C5), while others are lovingly preserved (anything that runs on steam). For each of these there is a pivotal moment when a technology gets an edge or is overtaken by events. It seems to me that we might be at that point with financial data and the pension dashboard. I can hear readers yelling at Siri, Alexa or Google to send round the men in white coats. But can you hold that thought while I justify my position. There's an app for that  AJ Bell has just provided APIs that o...