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Planetary Democracy:
"thinks ought to be done. Undoubtedly the world majority would make many mistakes, but as the mistake becomes evident the majority of humans will think that this alternative will work better; and because they think so, it will be satellite sensed and the computer will instruct management to immediately alter the course.
“This is the way all mechanical steering mechanisms of air-planes or ships of the sea work. The servomechanisms responding to sensed error in first one direction and then the other, successively correcting the steering-- first this way, then that way-- averaging an accomplished course halfway between. The variations get finer and finer, trending toward but never attaining,‘absolute straightness,’ This is the essence of cybernetics. This way humans reached the Moon. It is the essence of all life growth. Development of such satellite-harvested, electromagnetic-field sensing of how world democracy feels about any proposed solution of any given problem is close at hand or has already been technically prototyped. An incorruptible, true, direct planetary democracy with all of humanity franchised and always voting, may well render all of humanity sustainable, successful. So those are my thoughts, sir.”
