We vote for archetypes In principle, an election is based on the informed choice made by citizens based on a rational political program. However, in practice, only a minority of voters take the time to read the programs, and an even smaller minority remembers the content of the program only one year after the election… So, if it is not …
Augmented Democracy: 7 proposals to reinvent politics
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, …
What if Plato had created a startup?
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 …