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DemocracyMouse

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6. An example of rethinking democracy

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Tue Jan 2, 2018, 12:12 PM

Jan 2018

Below is an example of how one might rethink democratic systems in the age of the internet. A professor at MIT, Joi Ito, talks about emergent democracy:

https://personaldemocracy.com/media/emergent-democracy-revisited

My center-out diagram of infrastructure supporting a people's economy is quite related.

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Rethinking democracy! [View all] DemocracyMouse Dec 2017 OP

These are economic models, DemMouse. Not governance. Hortensis Dec 2017 #1

I don't think you understand DemocracyMouse Dec 2017 #2

Reading your Journal, I am asking why you are pushing to change "Democracy"? Wwcd Jan 2018 #3

Improving society is creepy??? DemocracyMouse Jan 2018 #5

Please provide a Link as this is the Editorial/Articles Forum Wwcd Jan 2018 #4

Article posted below (thanks for reminder!) DemocracyMouse Jan 2018 #7

An example of rethinking democracy DemocracyMouse Jan 2018 #6