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good government in the future will depend on the quantity and quality of feedback of all kinds.

My hope would be that more parties try to work out where they want to go—how they might reimagine welfare, or the governance of technology, or the everyday workings of democracy—and my guess is that all of them would find this energising. The more they can involve the wider public, and particularly young people, in these exercises the better, not s

We need research on the possible use of technology to create institutions which serve personal, creative, and autonomous interaction and the emergence of values which cannot be substantially controlled by technocrats. We need counterfoil research to current futurology.

The solution of public problems through public action—changing the law, going to court, organizing citizens, petitioning the government with grievances—went all but unmentioned. Rather, the university promised a new focus on the “entrepreneurial spirit” as the solution to “some of the world’s most pressing problems.”

and those technocrats who must be disrupted in order to rebuild an efficient government and public life.