{"id":5883,"date":"2012-09-06T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5883"},"modified":"2012-09-05T23:25:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T03:25:20","slug":"the-future-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-future-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090512_0212_TheFutureOf1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David H. Freedman looked at some of the ways that computers could transform democracy. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the future candidates could answer a series of multiple choice questions about their positions, backed with videos of them explaining their opinion. Voters could then see a graph that shows how the candidate&#8217;s positions compare to their own.<\/li>\n<li>Online voting, because of its convenience, might also increase participation in elections \u2013 especially for the smaller races that don&#8217;t attract many voters but have a large impact on their lives.<\/li>\n<li>An attempt to form an online party that would put up a candidate to fight in the 2012 Presidential election failed. But that doesn&#8217;t mean the idea is doomed. Both the Tea Party movement and the Occupy Wall Street Movement got their boost through the internet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about the role that Facebook would play in this future over <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2012\/sep\/25-facebook-elections-candidates-you-actually-like\/article_view?b_start:int=1&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DiscoverMag%20%28Discover%20Magazine%29&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_source=feedburner\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2012\/sep\/25-facebook-elections-candidates-you-actually-like\/article_view?b_start:int=1&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DiscoverMag%20%28Discover%20Magazine%29&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_source=feedburner\">Discover Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David H. Freedman looked at some of the ways that computers could transform democracy. They include: In the future candidates could answer a series of multiple choice questions about their positions, backed with videos of them explaining their opinion. Voters could then see a graph that shows how the candidate&#8217;s positions compare to their own. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090512_0212_TheFutureOf1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5893,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions\/5893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}