I just read the story about the man who will save/destroy the Internet. I'm still unsure if his job is even worthwhile, but this quote is worth commending:
"We won’t have any voting here, we will work by consensus. If there is a split, it will not make the final agreement. Where there is no agreement, the effort will have to be to convince each other."
-- Masood Khan
Suppose an actual government worked that way. No law gets passed without 100% yay votes from everyone. I can only guess what laws would be the result: no killing, no stealing, and no kidnapping? Even with those I'm sure some people would vote no, and they would then end up getting killed (null vote), their ballot stolen (it now says yay, here), or kidnapped so they can't vote (we'll let you go if you vote yay).
If only governments actually worked that way, and this system might scale up extremely well.
