Stewart Brand, Jonathan Haidt, Kevin Kelly: Democracy in the Next Cycle of History
Long Now
The Asteroid Is Coming for America
I see there's a sociological asteroid coming for American democracy. I think we're going to have catastrophic political failure. There are these cycles of history and the post-war institutions that were created for the era of mass media can't work in the area of distributed everything. So it could be much better democracy in our future, but we don't know how far in the future. Even if social media was never invented, we were going to go through this.
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