[ChaoticGood]

Governments shouldn't attempt to solve technical problems. Governments should provide an equal playing field for it's citizens.

Google is operating on a level playing field. It just Google competition is not willing to take the risk to run the proverbial ball of innovation into a new uncharted territories of the search game.

Who is to say governments themselves are not monopolies that could use some form of healthy competition. I would love to replace my congress representative an incumbent of 20 years with a more efficient direct democracy app.

[ChaoticGood]

Of course said theoretical voting app as mention above would have to be voted in before people could use it. Think somewhere in the states recently there was a campaign to elect representative that would be informed how to vote by people who would use a twitter like system to interface with the politician. Thus adding more a scientific consensus to form with the aid of direct democracy.