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Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government [video] Terrence Dorsey8-Oct-12 11:56 Terrence Dorsey 8-Oct-12 11:56  TED.com[^]: The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens. Dreaming of a downvote democracy. Re: Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government [video] AspDotNetDev8-Oct-12 13:47 AspDotNetDev 8-Oct-12 13:47  Darkly dreaming Dorsey. Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut! Re: Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government [video] Bert Mitton9-Oct-12 6:27 Bert Mitton 9-Oct-12 6:27  This might work wonders if: 1) Governments wanted transparency 2) Governments wanted to listen to their citizens 3) Half the citizens weren't morons. Re: Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government [video] AspDotNetDev9-Oct-12 8:06 AspDotNetDev 9-Oct-12 8:06  Bert Mitton wrote: This might work wonders if Might work for The Venus Project. Bert Mitton wrote: Half the citizens weren't morons Perhaps you don't live in the US. At least 90% of our citizens are morons. Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut! Re: Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government [video] Bert Mitton10-Oct-12 4:41 Bert Mitton 10-Oct-12 4:41  I do live in the US... I was just being kind.

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