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Disentangling Democracy From Geography

It’s time for representative government to catch up with internet-era concepts of community.
Source: CDIC / Reuters / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic

For as long as people have been criticizing technology, they’ve been complaining that emerging tools make us lazy, stupid, unable to concentrate, and so on. It is easy to imagine that a certain technological advance, whether it is the printing press or the television, imposes some undesired quality upon humanity by its very nature. But the fact is

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