Electronic Direct Democracy

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

“The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

“Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn’t. Without the layered richness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)

“No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)