Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future. Traditional representative democracy within nations is no longer enough. People want more participation and collaboration with their government.
What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form of government that counts participation and transparency as its cornerstones and uses technology as its guide. The digital revolution is allowing democracy to recall its foundations and evolution is modernizing and reinforcing our fundamental values.
In order to thrive in the 21st century, you have to be a savvy citizen of the digital economy or risk being left behind.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.
Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.
While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.