Reminds me of the quote from the game Deus Ex: The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because human beings themselves realized how unf

Reminds me of the quote from the game Deus Ex: The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because human beings themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system, an industrial-age machine. Without the use of computing machines our ancestors had to arrange themselves in crude structures that formalized decision-making. Now are merely developing a decision-making system that does not involve organic beings.