Interesting set of slides - with the promise of a PDF to follow - from Ross Dawson on the future of government. I don't think we should consider 21st century government to be just an electronic version of the sort of government we have today. Why, for example, would we have representatives speak for us on the basis of where we live - and hence, potentially really misrepresent our views - when we could delegate much more reliable spokespeople - or intelligent agents - to speak on our behalf? And governments are going to have to cut through corruption and media manipulation in order to handle the really big problems of climate change, resource depletion and interstellar expansion. And why organize government along the lines of a hierarchy, when it could be unbundled and distributed? Children today are probably going to see some big changes in government in their lifetimes; people my age will be stuck with watching the collapse of the current order. Bleah.
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