So at the end of the day we will have to implement their vision anyway, but after a very high social cost. So to shorten the time that a genuinely good idea gets thought by a teenager or young people, and the time that it’s understood by the senior people and implemented, is key to moving democracy forward. The younger people, because they’re digital natives, they don’t think that once every four years is sufficient upload bandwidth, the latency is too high, they prefer to collaborate on a day-to-day basis. --- Audrey Tang

relevance - Elections are slow communications, sending 5 bits every four years.

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The key to advancing democracy is to shorten the time it takes for good ideas from young people to be understood and implemented by senior people. Digital natives do not believe that a four-year upload bandwidth is sufficient. They prefer to collaborate on a daily basis.


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