[Ummon]

Why can't we have a computational society based on the same ideas to underpin social network switches facebook or twitter for coming to regional consensus in real time on policy decisions?

[JethroDull]

Because nerds are not destined to rule the word?

Out of a sheer morid curiousity, could you elaborate on your thoughts a bit?

Are you suggesting society would be better because if acts through a more immediate decision making process?

Like the borg?

[The One.]

A society based upon Twitter and facebook sounds deeply moronic.

[onemalehuman]

Now, I bet you bought stock in facebook? This decentralized computational process is then centralized to flow through facebook and twitter?

Cornering the marketplace of communication here?

governance needs feared far more than governments.

[Daktoria]

Why can't we have a computational society based on the same ideas to underpin social network switches facebook or twitter for coming to regional consensus in real time on policy decisions?

You could argue we already do.

When people deny a priori reason, they're as good as biological robots.

Since a priori deniers dominate FB, and since FB has such influence on electoral politics, we can conclude that policy making is already "computed".

Real time decision making is based on the influence of how people interact on the social network, so it's organically already in place.

[redcarpet]

Like many things in consumer society,
IDIOTS dominate these entities.

I'd rather those people die than
take orders from many of them.