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Something I've been thinking about is how the concept of government could fundamentally change now that the internet exists. Like, perhaps we need a world reset simply because authority as it is structured cannot coexist with information freely (and so it will either become authoritarian or collapse in chaos).
Like, we vote on things every day in our lives, right? From how good breakfast is to how the weather is... voting is just an external notification of having an opinion.
So just imagine an interface that is a constant in your life, perhaps within a passport-like document, that has a steady stream of voting measures, but about policy.
Any type of representative democracy basically means politicians are middlemen between the opinions of the people and the actions of state (ideally). The internet, also ideally, could cut out that middleman by way of like, 70% of their utility. Politicians could act only as the human managers of resource distribution and employment directives, while the direction of state and its resources could be decided on by the people.
We have this codified notion of a meritocracy in the United States, and various just, established notions of "how things are run" across the world. I don't know, I think that's why they want the internet to be a big fucking shopping mall, because it could be so much more than that.
The opportunity to re-think structures of society from the ground up with the internet as a utility is, to be honest, probably what humanity needs in order to actually survive. (Which obviously would be a world-altering realignment of power and , thus, will never happen. But it's fun to think about.)
- All this would accomplish would be to have free beer on tap from park drinking fountains and 1 day work weeks._niko
- I've done some speculative design around this concept of 'hyper democracy' (where everything is voted for or open to the communal opinion)BaskerviIle
- The problem is that you already have voters who are ill-informed and apathetic. More daily voting admin would push people into further apathy.BaskerviIle
- In theory we're supposed to vote in politicians who are willing to do the background reading, stay informed and make the right choices for usBaskerviIle
- We need to switch to blockchain votingscarabin
- Look into blockchain governance. It will eat authority, same way software ate the worldzaq
- you cannot have blockchain gov as it does not have an "undo" option if something goes wrong********
- also stop with this blockchain bullshit, already ffsake********
- @colin_s you can only achieve success with this if all citizens are at the same level of understanding; as of today, they are still not.********
- also most ppl think facebook or google is the internet so, yeah...********
- @all , agreed, which is why it would have to likely be a complete reset, a post-near-extinction type of society after a severe event in human historycolin_s
- @grafician, how is the "undo" option helped you last 4 years? Perhaps you are not aware of what capabilities blockchain has besides trading?zaq
- If "undo" option bothers you in blockchain, I recommend you read up on Chainlink's oracles. Not everything needs to be done with "undo"zaq
- Like it or not, blockchain is here to stayzaq