Electronic Direct Democracy

Famous quotes containing the words electronic, direct and/or democracy:

    “Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    “In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and ... in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.”
    —William Dean Howells (1837–1920)

    “No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)