Do We Think We've Lost Our Heap?

Yale Journal of Law and the humanities asked me to write an essay about how history can inform technology law and design. And so I've started working on that and of course you know I can't resist the impulse to say, what do you mean by democracy? It very quickly exploded because I thought about this painting of the house of representatives from the 1820s with people milling around it's very open and freeform but very serene," he said. "This seems like it captures something of what people think of as democracy and American democracy"