[joshiefishbein]

This is precisely what Clay Shirky was talking about back in 2012 in his talk "How the Internet Will One Day Transform Government":

https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_...

Now if we could only move our legislators' legislative processes into git...

[r00fus]

First we have to remove tech troglodytes from government by voting for sane replacements. Only then can we discuss rational advances to tech in government.

I see this as a distinct possibility if there is a wave election in 2020 with new voices who are open to actual non-lobbyist reform.

[dragonwriter]

> First we have to remove tech troglodytes from government by voting for sane replacements. Only then can we discuss rational advances to tech in government.

No, first “we” have to learn to talk about things that matter to most citizens, which tech in government, as such, is not. You need to talk to the things that can be delivered, tech is just a means to deliver them.