The public administrative work processes – and within that the regulation of the official procedure – have their own peculiarities and regularities. Observing, counting, organizing and possibly rethinking them can be extremely rewarding, as the history of modernisation of the administrative work has shown. The present study consists of two parts. In the first part, entitled “What was and what is now”, we discuss the foreign and then Hungarian antecedents of the rationalization of public administraion sytem and administrative work processes. Then, we analyze shortly the main characteristics of each stage of our “journey” from the first stage of the establishment of the general rules of the Hungarian administrative authority procedure – from the years of 1957, 1981, 2004, 2016. In the second part, entitled “What is now and what will happen, and will can happen,” we draw our vision, the consequences of the first part and outline what the position of the general regulation of the official procedure will be in Hungary in 2030. Sci-fi or reality? We try to give a hypothetical answer to this question. Not the way others see it, but the way we think it is.