This will be a collection of musings about the possibility of a code-based system of government that will augment, enhance, and possibly supplant traditional forms of representational democracy.
Nothing like this has existed in human history, and I realize from the first note of this conversation that discussing the creation of such a system on July 4, 2007 is akin to discussing the possibility of a movable-type printing press (In 700 B.C.). But technology can do some pretty incredible things. 100 Years ago airplanes were novelties. Today, they are highly sophisticated terrorist weapons.
My point being...that 100 Years for now, we may laugh at the idea of trying to establish an equitable, stable government without the aid of a reliable software platform to run it on.
So, what I'll try to establish is the following:
1. The current system (The american republic as derived from Constitution and laws thereof) is not built to handle the current world state of affairs and technology.
2. Instead of trying to fix this system, we should scrap the code and build better systems of control.
3. A better system of control and govt. management will be able to outperform traditional forms in the marketplace, so no violence will be needed to overthrow the current system.
3. It is logical to base the technology of these new systems on the technologies of the Net and personal computers, for a variety of reasons that will be spelled out in detail later.
4. We need someone (ie: Google, but not necessarily them) in the private sector to build these system for us.
I will spend the next few posts elaborating on this theory and other aspects of a decentralized, net-based, adaptive, peer-review democracy.
stay free.
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