Well, if you liked the last one how about these two…?
“There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion of new ways of communicating. We need not accept the paradox that gives us more ways than ever to speak, and leaves the public with a wider feeling that their voices are not being heard. The new technologies can strengthen our democracy, by giving us greater opportunities than ever before for better transparency and a more responsive relationship between government and leaders.” – Robin Cook.
“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.” – Bill Gates
Twittocracy:
“A society governed solely by the aggregated opinions of the majority via the internet using social media.”
“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.”
Aneurin Bevan
If the political classes have a reason to fear Social Media, then you need look no further than the fact that politicians are redundant when every citizen can interact ‘horizontally‘.
Horizontal Democracy obviates the need for traditional politicians to be employed to interpret the ‘mood of the people’ . . . trending topics become candidates for legislation, debates are handled under #hashtags, machines of ‘loving grace’ enable the revolution and a de-politicized civil service does the leg-work.
Could the future be full-spectrum ‘Mob Rule’ . . . . Horizontal Democracy?
[Not if our ‘leaders’ have anything to do with it].
They want want obedient workers, not disobedient networkers!