Would democracy be any different if Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had foreseen the possibility of direct online participation? Would they have paved the way for new technologies? Or would they have built roadblocks to prevent the emergence of these new technological vehicles?
As with most historical hypotheticals, we will never know. We are in 2012, however, and despite the internet most countries are still stuck in one-bit democracies, where people are required to choose between two alternatives every four to six years.
By: Ali Almossawi and Cesar A Hidalgo, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/11/ideas-bank/going-beyond-the-one-bit-democracy
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