interactivity of networking, is going to change the 
way we think about political institutions, and how 
we think about community, and how we think 
about representative democracy itself, the idea of 
representative democracy. Democracy started as 
the answer to kings and it meant that people went 
to Washington or to Ottawa or wherever because, 
they sent representatives there because they 
themselves couldn’t go. Now we have the 
opportunity to directly participate in political 
decision-making and consensus-building and my 
guess is that we are going to see a new way at 
arriving at political decision-making that doesn’t 
include representatives off in some far-off capital.