The sound is horrible here....

hey. nice docs! we are filmmakers from brazil. where you guys, from?

Very good also writing at mydigitalfootprint.com

excellent work. I really am an amateur....perhaps i need to go to film school.. knutsfordtimes.com

The principle of subsidiarity must always be implemented in any political system.
I as citizen would mostly be interested in the local/community level and I would rather leave complex decisions on the national/global level to experts to whom I´d delegate my vote. These experts/fulltime politicions should always be obligated to explain their decisions and they would be controlled by us. The lowest hirarchie level would always have a veto right against every above level. Also there should be more possibilities for direct democracy and proposals from the ordinary people.

I really hope we will soon get a democratic, transparent, participative, global political system that suits the society we are. (We are a different society on every level: Local, national, global. And we interact and influence each other.)

unpacampaign.org
worldvotenow.com
voteworldgovernment.com

GlobalDemo.org

Unfortunately, here in California, this wonderful theory of the transformative power of "letting the people participate directly in government" is running headlong into reality. The Proposition system allows the electorate to alter the State Constitution.

It has resulted in a fiscal and governmental disaster on an unprecedented scale.

Bread and circuses. Lots of services, and no new taxes to pay for any of them. We're reduced to borrowing against the future earnings of the state lottery, for crissakes.

I'd love to believe that there will exist a way for the connectivity of the web to result in better, more responsive government - but we're not there yet. Not by a long shot.

That was great! One angle that we hope to make progress on with Carrotmob.org is to expand democracy by making Carrotmob into a platform that will let people vote with their spending in a more organized and coordinated way.... I think that one of the things that's happening here is that some types of ordinary activity that have always happened with no real impact are now finding ways to have impact just through the power of coordination and self-organization. Anyway, great job.

Great documentation.
Thanks for sharing.

this was incredible and has so many implications for the future, I am sharing it with all of my friends

Hello Carrotmob! Great to see you here...

im so happy to have seen that!

Fantastic movie... Possibilities make me shiver... :-)

Oh... And THANKS!

Great movie. Technology changed society since the beginning of mankind. Exciting times are coming :)

a brand new world for us to create... hope we'll succeed.

wow thank you for creating this

I thought this was very interesting, excellent work!

Brilliant work! It has really inspired me about ways to run the farmers' market I'm charged with running.

"Great overview of what is happening. Puts the current German cencorship debate, whitehouse.gov, Iranian unrest etc. into a different perspective. Many leaders are getting really really scared… lets hope it all goes as smoothly as possible :-) ."

Great to see this discussion going on - the internet has changed everything.

And it's been interesting the last 5 years watching the slow wave of more and more people / companies / etc understanding it's real power.

A great film with some very interesting points and observations. We can only hope...

However, no power was ever handed over willingly. It has been the result of great, often violent, struggle. Wars and revolutions. To the victorious go the spoils. I don't think ANY government is going to just hand over control to the populace. Government is there to control us, not to manage us. I don't see that changing unless there is MASSIVE public pressure and awareness, akin to the civil rights movement in the 60's. Its great to see pro-active involvement at the local and community level, but I am not optimistic about the internet changing the way government behaves. We are still the fringe, the minority. But it is great to see discussion and the slow wave building, as Mike says.

This is not just about the internet, the change in human behavior is happening, due to a leap in cognitive awareness that has a life of its own. No one can control it. The film captures the spirit of human consciousness becoming more aware of global consciousness. It is a reflection of something much greater than the images and messages.

This reminds me of
truetopiaproject.org/

Some dude in holland who has created an open source project developing a generic self-governance web application. Yum!

Amazing video, this makes me wonder, what impact will all of this have on religion?

That's an amazing video! really like it, I trust in internet since a little boy but now the massive social networks just amaze me... nice work ;) greetings from Mexico!

Great quotes, nice tempo, and otherwise very nicely done.