Modern communication technologies such as the internet are providing new tools and channels for citizens to use in their interaction with governments - and vice versa. Is it time for citizens and governments alike to accept the changed landscape of politics, and begin opening up the ’source code’ of democracy to closer inspection?
Continue reading “Democracy 2.0 - Opening the Black Boxes of Government”
In fifty year’s time, people will look back and laugh at us for a lot of reasons. Apart from the fashions (“d00d, those jeans, like WTF!!!1!1”), what gets the biggest chuckles will surely be the hopelessly outdated concept of representative democracy.
Continue reading “The Demise of the Demagogue”
Second Life is really starting to hit the news properly now - it’s been a 1337-geek blogosphere darling for a little while, but some of the more mainstream outlets are picking it up. And as usual, they’re blowing it out of all proportion as it stands at the moment. But what about in a few decades’ time? Continue reading “A second chance at life”
The last thing I would ever have accused the UK goverment of doing would have been thinking ahead. Continue reading “UK Government looks to the future”
Posted by Paul Raven @ 29-12-2005 in Uncategorized •
Looks like something slipped through the net here (literally)…read the whole post on Lenin’s Tomb (this link found on Ken Macleod’s blog. Just doing my little bit to make sure government lies don’t disappear like they want them to. Continue reading “Big fat leak of UK government’s approval of torture techniques”