Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
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