The Prospect of Democracy 2.0 David Wood @dw2 Principal, Delta Wisdom Chair, London Futurists londonfuturists.com deltawisdom.com Why everyone interested in the future of business should be paying attention to the future of politics
Aug 02, 2015
The Prospect of Democracy 2.0
David Wood @dw2
Principal, Delta Wisdom Chair, London Futurists londonfuturists.com deltawisdom.com
Why everyone interested in the future of business should be paying
attention to the future of politics
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Exponential Technologies
Business disruption
Development
& Deployment
Incentives Regulations Subsidies Markets Expectations
Politics
N B I C R G …
@dw2 Page 3 http://uber-troubles.silk.co/
Over 65 conflicts or controversies for Uber to date worldwide
In Dec 2014, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office issued a legal indictment against Uber (and against CEO Travis Kalanick) for violating a Korean law prohibiting individuals or firms without appropriate licenses from providing or facilitating transportation services.
@dw2 Page 4 http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2013/ucm376296.htm
“Most of the intended uses for PGS listed on your website, a list that has grown over time, are medical device uses under section
201(h) of the FD&C Act. Most of these uses have not been classified and thus require premarket approval or de novo
classification, as FDA has explained to you on numerous occasions.”
@dw2 Page 5 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-32919063
Deaths from ‘legal highs’ have more than doubled in the UK in the past four years
‘Legal highs’ ban plan criticised by drugs charities
Seven-year jail terms under ‘blanket ban’… applies to “any substance intended for human consumption
that is capable of producing a psychoactive effect”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32919712
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/windpower/11685082/Wind-farm-subsidies-axed-to-stop-turbines-
covering-beautiful-countryside.html
Wind farm subsidies axed 'to stop turbines covering beautiful countryside'
Fossil fuels subsidies of $5.3 trillion in 2015 (IMF) – greater than the total health
spending of all the world’s governments
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/fossil-fuel-companies-getting-10m-a-
minute-in-subsidies-says-imf
@dw2 Page 7 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/07/drone-near-miss-passenger-plane-heathrow
Drone ‘near miss’ with passenger plane close to
Heathrow airport investigated
Incident risk rating of A – the highest of five categories – defined as a
“serious risk of collision”
@dw2 Page 9 http://fbheron.org/2014/03/15/in-case-you-missed-it-investing-giving-for-good/
I liked it better when
our bank was just a bank
@dw2 Page 10 https://www.laprogressive.com/obamas-regulatory-brain/
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Exponential Technologies
Business disruption
Development
& Deployment
Incentives Regulations Subsidies Markets Expectations
Politics
Necessary part of society
Regulations often out-dated
Regulators often “captured”
Politicians out of their depth
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Exponential Technologies
Political disruption
Development
& Deployment
Incentives Regulations Subsidies Markets Expectations
Politics
Necessary part of society
Regulations often out-dated
Regulators often “captured”
Politicians out of their depth
Politics 2.0
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Web 1.0 Web 2.0
1996 2006
“the mostly read-only Web” “the wildly read-write Web” 80,000,000 sites 250,000 sites
45 million global users 1 billion+ global users
centrally published content
user generated
content
centrally published content
user generated
content
collective intelligence
Source: http://web2.wsj2.com/ (Dion Hinchcliffe)
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Web 1.0 focus (Politics 1.0)
• Information distributed through the network to the edges
• Readable web: Library
• A few, fixed wise oracles
• Publishing & retrieval
• User consumption
• Company-driven innovation
• HTML, HTTP…
Web 2.0 focus (Politics 2.0?)
• Harnessing of intelligence residing in the network, including at its edges (P2P)
• Writable web: Conversation
• User reputation systems
• Collaboration & interaction
• User-generated content
• User-driven innovation
• AJAX… Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
Enabled by smart technology
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Politics 1.0
Regulations often out-dated
Regulators often “captured”
Politicians out of their depth
Real wisdom of crowds
Real-time fact-checking
AI supplementing HI
Mass surveillance
Mass distraction (soma)
Gov’t by 1% for 1%
Politics 2.0
?
Politics 0.0
?