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theadvancedapes  ·  3603 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Democracy in the digital era -- New Internationalist

Thanks for the shout out thenewgreen. I've been well, still getting settled in Belgium, but thoroughly enjoying the intellectual atmosphere at the GBI. If people are interested in the thoughts of this article - which essentially argue for a structural paradigm shift in modes of control - then you may be interested in my latest paper (just published in the Journal of Evolution & Technology ). In it I propose Human Metasystem Transition (HMST) theory, which argues that fundamental control transitions always occur with the emergence of a higher information medium (in this case the Internet), and this is an evolutionary model within which new forms of governance can not only be expected to stabilize in the coming decades, but also an evolutionary model in which this transition can be predicted and studied.