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From geeks to the masses, from culture to economics and politics. Internet is changing everything.

3 March 2010 - 3:40pm — ocrampal

Internet and technology in general are changing just about everything we can think of. What gets hit first by this transformation?

This article about politics is one of the first of its kind that I have read so far. It describes a pretty simple idea to change US politics by abolishing the Senate and replacing it with a Reddit style platform that would allow all citizens to vote on propositions.

A broader look at our economic future

18 January 2010 - 6:11pm — ocrampal

If you think the financial crisis was created by the housing bubble in the US, then you should probably think better, says Jeff Rubin.

Old politicians do not get the Internet

21 October 2007 - 12:11pm — ocrampal

The average age of Italian politicians is one of the highest in the world. Regardless of their background, either on the left or on the right, Italian politicians have been trying to "regulate" the Internet for a while now. Their latest proposal is to oblige any site or blog owner to register their site if they generically provide information. The registration would be done through a government agency adding more bureaucracy to a country that has so much of it that could export it, were there countries crazy enough to adopt the Italian system.

Politics

6 August 2007 - 12:53am — ocrampal

Yesterday I was invited at a dinner in San Francisco. The host is a very successful entrepreneur, who now spends most of his time finding money (millions) and setting the vision for the democratic party.

We had a great conversation about world politics, US politics, Italian politics (if it ever existed really :-) ), and compared our visions of the future.

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