New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You

by Jeremy Heimans

often frustrating opportunities t...

To create the full-stack society, we need to dream up entirely new models that make us feel more powerful an...

if we want to rebuild public trust in our institutions, we have to let people get their hands on them.

he believes the key to moderating and deepening our public discourse is for people to be constantly debating, voting, deliberating.

“unbundling democracy”:

imagine democracy as a series of layered and cascading institutions that you relate to according to your relationship with that service.”

Plans like this must account for the bias inherent in any crowdsourcing exercise—especially

especially the challenge of distinguishing between what is vital and what has viral appeal, and ensuring that they don’t mostly benefit the already privileged.

But done well, they can serve a larger purpose: giving people a sense of ownership and many more ...