Perhaps, but it comes down to the old question of whether democracy should be a majority rule. If you had a system to do referendum online, you'd promote populi

Perhaps, but it comes down to the old question of whether democracy should be a majority rule. If you had a system to do referendum online, you'd promote populism, and you could easily pass a vote like "free pizza for everyone on Mondays". Most people don't even have the basic knowledge of topics such as economics, so they don't know what is feasible and what the consequences of decisions may be. The idea of choosing guys to do it for you is that they can analyze the proposals and filter out the unreasonable ones, in theory at least. Also, doing online referendums comes with the discrimination issue, skewing heavily towards young smartphone users who have internet access, discriminating against elderly and people living in rural areas with limited internet access.