DNC08: David Carr from NY Times interview
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Craig Newmark
Wherein I plug networked, grassroots democracy, which begins to realize the vision of the Founders, direct democracy.
David's the author of the highly regarded memoir Night of the Gun
(Michael Smith recorded us.)
Part 1 is here.
YES! The Founders, esp. Jefferson and Franklin, would have seen how the internet can create the combination of connectivity and data processing to allow our current pseudo-representative democracy to evolve to a truly participatory real democracy.