Thursday, July 24, 2003

Liquid Democracy: When, not If. Everyone knows that direct democracy doesn't scale. And most people accept that representative democracy is far from perfect. So a more perfect union of citizens, state and country is inevitable. What's it likely to be? Liquid Democracy looks good to me. [kuro5hin.org] 6:09:54 PM    comment [] Sci-Fi Tech Coming to a Reality Near You. "Where are the flying cars we were promised?" Avery Brooks is quite excited, and not in a good way. In a commercial for IBM, he rails about how disappointed society is because all the great technological advances we were promised a few decades ago still aren't here. No flying cars, no space travel, no giant domed cities, no anti-gravity belts, no warp drive ...aside from the remote control, mankind has not made a significant advance in technology in the last 50 years. The next 50 years promises to be different. In this article, I will examine disruptive technologies that will likely impact us in the next half century, some of which we've been waiting for impatiently, others we've barely conceived of yet. [kuro5hin.org] 6:08:34 PM    comment [] A worthwhile question... Ask K5: What would you do as the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security?. There has been much discussion, on K5 and otherwise, about the current state of civil rights in the U.S. and the relative merits of the Department of Homeland Security in the face of increasingly limited freedoms of the average US citizen. Many people agree that limiting personal freedoms is not the answer. What hasn't been discussed adequately, I think, is what K5'ers think should be done. [kuro5hin.org] 6:03:07 PM    comment []

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