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Blogroll, e-democracy, e-participation, free-software, freedom, general, global-democratization, media democracy, politics, software, telematics, world democracy, world revolution

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Dear fellow world citizens,

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To entertain a constructive exchange of ideas, with all interested, for whatever reason, in creating ways to substantially improve the life of humans and other sentient beings; through rational inquiry, research and experimentation.

My exploration is driven by curiosity and passion, as well as by a yet unproven intuition that “True love of self and love of others coincide”, as Alexander Pope said.

… and then I will write in some light and funny stuff, to keep you and me in the right balance between distraction, fun and ethical inquiry.

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Rufo

e-participation, media democracy, software, telematics, world democracy, world revolution

Telematics, Global democracy and Media Democracy

Telematics, the integrated use of telecommunications and informatics, is the most crucial industry sector for the future of humanity. It is key to the indispensable updating and possible deepening of our democratic systems, through their adequate extension to the global level and to the main systems of public opinion formation. Only such extension, in fact, will avoid that citizens of the world will stand, both powerless and unaware, while largely unaccountable interests lead them to ultimate nuclear, environmental and biological catastrophe.
The patterns of control over network-enabled software that will become legal and predominant over the next few years, will weigh more than anything on a definite slide of humanity towards, either its extinction, or an unprecedented deepening of democracy and freedom.

Telematics can be defined as ways software programs are used to control hardware devices and data networks to provide a communication experience. Software is not only the key element of information networks like the Internet and the Web but, by now and increasingly, of practically all those media that originated as bare telecommunication channels, such as: radio, analog TV, satellite and digital TV, mobile phones.

Paradoxically, over the next few years, the practical nature of certain telematics innovations, especially those enabling remote democratic organizing and audience-controlled mass self communications, and the way our democratic societies will legislate and enforce their access and control, will be the main potential instrument for reviving democracy and therefore substantially reducing the abovementioned risks.

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