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  • Nick Hood 6 months ago
    Loved this.
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  • Olivier FAURAX 6 months ago
    The sound is horrible here....
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  • duo2 6 months ago
    hey. nice docs! we are filmmakers from brazil. where you guys, from?
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  • Tony Fish 6 months ago
    Very good also writing at mydigitalfootprint.com
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  • Jonathan Farber 6 months ago
    excellent work. I really am an amateur....perhaps i need to go to film school.. knutsfordtimes.com
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  • fredbrandi 6 months ago
    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
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  • Dave LaFontaine 5 months ago
    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.
  • mike ambs ☂ plus 4 months ago
    Hey Dave :) I'm not so sure the this documentary is talking about the same thing that played out in CA. The budget disaster we got going on here... I just don't think many people would blame it on a kind of transparency or ultra-involvement that backfired.
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  • carrotmob 5 months ago
    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.
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  • Kissaki 5 months ago
    Great documentation.
    Thanks for sharing.
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  • Alan C 5 months ago
    this was incredible and has so many implications for the future, I am sharing it with all of my friends
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  • Matan Rochlitz 5 months ago
    Hello Carrotmob! Great to see you here...
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  • Martin Petrov 5 months ago
    im so happy to have seen that!
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  • Becontinued 5 months ago
    Fantastic movie... Possibilities make me shiver... :-)

    Oh... And THANKS!
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  • gmerlin 5 months ago
    Great movie. Technology changed society since the beginning of mankind. Exciting times are coming :)
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  • Felix T 5 months ago
    a brand new world for us to create... hope we'll succeed.
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  • mikehedge 5 months ago
    wow thank you for creating this
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  • Luke Pygman 5 months ago
    I thought this was very interesting, excellent work!
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  • Vincent Dickie 4 months ago
    Brilliant work! It has really inspired me about ways to run the farmers' market I'm charged with running.
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  • sanook 4 months ago
    "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 :-) ."
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  • mike ambs ☂ plus 4 months ago
    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.
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  • Influxx Media 3 months ago
    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.
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  • Lewis Humphreys 2 months ago
    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.
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  • Phridge 25 days ago
    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!
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  • Umar Hansa 22 days ago
    Amazing video, this makes me wonder, what impact will all of this have on religion?
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  • Fernan Pérez 3 days ago
    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!
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  • C.Sætre 9 hours ago
    Great quotes, nice tempo, and otherwise very nicely done.
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