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