Well, I'm all for digital democracy, but the experiments in Australia and Estonia have serious flaws. In a world of hackers, it would be easy to subvert digital democracy. I watched a guy that did studies of digital democracy in both places and they had identified many flaws. It would probably be better to do it on a small scale, with digital democracy in local areas. There's also problems with direct democracy, I'd recommend checking out the CrimethInc. series of articles criticizing democracy. (I disagree with their conclusions, but their critique needs to be taken seriously.) We're still a long way from being able to replace delegative democracy and governance with direct digital democracy and automated administration. That's a good end goal though.
I didn't know the Bad Quacker was on here. I'm gonna have to follow him.
Heh, heh, bad quacker,...smdh,....
There isn't really much to vote on, is there?
I mean, once rule by force is put away, and crapitalism collapses due to it's absence, what are we gonna vote on, dams flooding lands?
I'd presume oil would quickly die out in favor of alcohol, so pipelines are out.
You ever read about New Urbanism? I think urban planning would still be a thing, and you'd still need traffic rules and dispute resolution, which should be done by neighborhood assemblies on a consensus basis if possible. There would also be disputes over possessions, which would need to be arbitrated and basic rules and standards would be useful.
Lol, you have depth of knowledge that is rare, my friend,...
I'll look into the Wikipedia and see what startpage.com can give me.
I do see disputes arising, he said, she saids, as it were.
The panopticon will end a lot of those, but dispute resolution will be a continuing necessity.
I haven't looked at New Urbanism, do you have a link?
Not really. Google James Howard Kunstler. He used to have a podcast on the topic. I think New Urbanism compliments democratic confederalism and the "small is beautiful" ideas of E. F. Schumacher and Leopold Kohr. Also, fits in with distributism (G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc) and Georgism (Henry George). Interesting stuff.
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. it takes a touch of genius - and alot of courage, to move in the opposite direction" - Albert Einstein