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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.