Forget Formal Authority. It's Time to Hack Democracy http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Formal authority is a 20th-century model, a relic of the age when power was vested in institutions rather than people. Despite the negative connotation of the word hacker, society is in the process of making itself more hackable. Instead of doing business as usual, expecting that our systems and data are impregnable, we have to play differently.



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