Us Now | movie | 2009 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Us Now is a documentary film project "about the power of mass collaboration, the government and the Internet" The New Yo | dG1fVGJtNVM4UjFJVEE

Transcript

00:00More people can say more things to more people than ever in history, and that is still growing enormously.

00:09The contemporary Internet, the tools that make it up, give us an immense opportunity to reorganize almost any aspect of our own lives.

00:22So if you can create an encyclopedia with a million people who have never met, but the quality is just as good as Britannica,

00:28what else could you create?

00:30There is this possibility of using these tools to do massive things, which is completely unexplored at the moment.

00:36And we can work together in ways that ask a deeper question about the role of government.

00:42There is a whole new model that is emerging where we become part of the government.

01:00I think we've got the technology that any voters in Parliament could be offered to the entire country.

01:07This is a very profound change.

01:09I'm not talking about people lobbying outside parties influencing them.

01:14I'm talking about unbundling and reconstituting what is a government.

01:21The revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new tools.

01:25It happens when society adopts new behaviors.