kaal:claim:3782192-033

The proposed technological upgrades to democracy would be trivial to implement by reusing existing open source projects, yet they are unlikely to happen naturally without a powerful catalyst in the form of coherent social demand.

Source quote, verbatim

These changes would be technologically trivial to implement, cutting and pasting ex- isting open source projects. This is quite unlikely to happen naturally, however, with- out a powerful catalyst—coherent social demand.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021), Present, p. 9
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192 · source PDF

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192

Holds when

existing democratic institutions absent organized public pressure

Classification

predictivesupport: arguedopen-source-and-code

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