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This is precisely what Clay Shirky was talking about back in 2012 in his talk "How the Internet Will One Day Transform Government": https://www.ted.com/talks/c

• r00fus 7y ago
  First we have to remove tech troglodytes from government by voting for sane replacements. Only then can we discuss rational advances to tech in government. I see this as a distinct possibility if there is a wave election in 2020 with new voices who are open to actual non-lobbyist reform.
  • dragonwriter 7y ago
    > First we have to remove tech troglodytes from government by voting for sane replacements. Only then can we discuss rational advances to tech in government. No, first “we” have to learn to talk about things that matter to most citizens, which tech in government, as such, is not. You need to talk to the things that can be delivered, tech is just a means to deliver them.
  • turk73 7y ago
    Yes! We must rip open the dark havens and sniff out the entrenched interests and shady operators. We need open government, not the back-room deals one we have now. Lobbying and the MIC have led us to ruin. I don't give peaceful outcomes much hope because Americans taken as a whole are far too ignorant and ill-informed. Reform will only come from the barrel of the gun and on the end of the rope as it always has. Or we will continue in chains as we do right now.