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This article is the continuation of “What if Plato had created a startup? “. It examines seven simple proposals that would revolutionize our current political model through the marriage of collective intelligence and digital technology. 1. Vote for projects rather than for candidates The current political system forces voters to choose a candidate and the program he / she represents, …
The Internet has disrupted all sectors: communication, education, transport, distribution, finance … There is one, however, that has not yet been reinvented by Internet: politics. We still function today according to principles that were established more than two and a half millennia ago by philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, who first modeled the different systems of power within the …
Do we truly enjoy freedom only when we are about to lose it? Everything goes as if our societies became incapable of understanding the importance of democratic values, except when a major crisis is about to deprive us of our rights. The terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo gives a good illustration of this. After the initial trauma, the weeks that …
Internet, or the triumph of idiocracy On the Internet, you can be anything you want. It’s strange that so many people choose to be stupid. Proverbe Internet Voyeurism, scatology, violence, puerile jokes, unproductive polemics: one of the most disheartening things Internet reveals is the extent of human stupidity. However,while it is truethat the Websometimeslooks like a huge psychic dump, what …
