I feel pretty optimistic about this, in part due to methods and practices being worked out in Taiwan: https://civichall.org/civicist/vtaiwan-democracy-frontier/

I feel pretty optimistic about this, in part due to methods and practices being worked out in Taiwan: https://civichall.org/civicist/vtaiwan-democracy-frontier/ https://civichall.org/civicist/vtaiwan-democracy-frontier/ My assessment is that we've been building tech to help us FIND one another, but rarely building tech to help us BRIDGE with one another. With the former, we build ubiquitous messaging platforms, and so we can now find and spend time with more people who are more like us than ever before -- engaging in "candy" conversation with very similar people for more and more hours of our waking life. The latter, BRIDGING tools, would instead encourage and help us to break down those silo's that we're creating -- the silo's which are leaving us less and less prepared to engage with folks unlike us, who have perhaps developed whole other forms of language and culture in their own silos. But as I said, Taiwan is experimenting with some really interesting processes that are breaking that down. Definitely worth reading the article :)