Ralph Perrine

Gallup believes it has detected a significant increase in the number of people who label themselves “Independents”. Typically the number of people claiming no party affiliation rises during non-election years, then falls as elections approach. According to Gallup, their non-election year polling indicates the number of people claiming Independent status may be rising to higher […]

In Chapter 4 of the book America 2076 I reviewed a number of existing and emerging technology innovations that were making feasible a new kind of political collaboration.
But I noted that to enable a true mass collaboration some required technologies still needed to be developed:
“Some additional capabilities may be required which are
missing from the arsenal […]

In the feedback from my Youtube slideshow Debugging Democracy some worried that the Democracy Network proposed in the slideshow might somehow marginalize or perhaps destabilize our government. So in this post, I’ll examine the impact of a Democracy Network or Collaborative Framework on our government, using content adopted from chapter 14 of my book America […]

To my thinking, the most pivotal success factor in politics and large distributed organizations in general is this:
The random occurrence of insights, and how well the political system manages them.

The following points explain how the next version of Democracy will be much more efficient than the current version at managing and circulating pivotal insights.
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