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Liquid Future

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Lawrence Lessig: How to Save Democracy

May 24, 2020 07:35 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MB

Lawrence Lessig is an academic, attorney, and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

Democracy Joe Rogan would be proud of?

December 07, 2019 11:29 - 17 minutes - 32.9 MB

Learn more about liquid democracy at https://democracy.space Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

All About Ranked Choice Voting with Drew Penrose of Fairvote

November 11, 2019 13:36 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MB

https://www.fairvote.org/ Drew Penrose heads the law and policy department at FairVote. He contributes to work around ranked choice voting, primary elections, election administration, and the Voting Rights Act. He and Rob Richie have co-authored two law review articles arguing for the use of ranked choice voting in legislative elections. Penrose has also helped draft and submit amicus curiae briefs in cases concerning voting rights, primary elections, and ballot access. Penrose earned a ...

Seasteading: Experimenting with Thousands of Government Models to Find What Works

October 09, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 82.7 MB

At The Seasteading Institute, we believe that experiments are the source of all progress: to find something better, you have to try something new. But right now, there is no open space for experimenting with new societies. That’s why we work to enable seasteading communities — floating cities — which will allow the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas for how to live together. Patri received a BS in math from Harvey Mudd College, an MS in computer science from Stanford ...

Meet The Futurologist who Wrote a Novel about the Liquid Democracy in 2050

October 02, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MB

Liquid Reign is a work of speculative fiction, imagineering a fairly liveable future in 2051, neither dys- nor utopian.Melting the boundaries between science and fiction into a novel format, each chapter provides links to the sources of inspiration influencing it – ranging from Jean Jacques Rousseau‘s social contract of 1762 to blockchain startups from 2018. "A vertiginous rollercoaster of ideas and a unique take on the future of (un)governance, delivered with irrepressible, unruly energy....

It's Time to Reclaim the Vice Presidency

September 25, 2019 16:00 - 55 minutes - 63.4 MB

"The Constitution gives the American people the right to choose the vice president of the United States. That right was taken from us by the party ballot. That lack of democracy has corrupted the office, turning it into a presidential lap dog, instead of a representative of ‘We the People.’ It’s time for that approach to change. It’s time to reclaim the vice presidency for the American people. It’s time for us to elect the vice president. ” David Blake, co-founder of vice.run

The Movement to Fix America's Corrupt Political System

September 18, 2019 16:00 - 51 minutes - 59.9 MB

James Jameson is a versed campaign operative, bringing multi-faceted experience to RepresentUs. Starting off with fundraising for the 2012 Marriage Equality campaign in Maine, James has led canvass efforts in three states and field efforts in two. In the 2016 cycle, James served as the New Hampshire Out-of-State Director for Bernie Sanders before joining his National Advance Team, traveling to 27 states, and building rallies of thousands of people. Since first getting into political campaign...

Meet the AP Government Teacher Who Ran for Congress in Tennessee

September 11, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 95.7 MB

Mariah Phillips (Democrat) was a candidate for Tennessee's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House. Phillips lost the general election on November 6, 2018, after advancing from the primary on August 2, 2018.

Common Objections to Liquid Democracy

August 30, 2019 10:52 - 49 minutes - 57.1 MB

This episode discusses some of the common objections raised against liquid democracy, and to what extent these objections may or may not have merit.

Meet the First Liquid Candidate Running for President: Ben Gleib

August 22, 2019 10:32 - 13 minutes - 30.9 MB

Ben Gleib is an American actor, comedian, satirist, and writer. In this video he is speaking at the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO's annual convention on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019 at Prairie Meadows Hotel in Altoona. For 14 years he has been a political commentator for CNN, NPR, The Young Turks, and other popular outlets. He's an entrepreneur and a TV host, and he created the telethon for America to gather one million Americans to improve voter turnout. Ben is running as a liquid candida...

Historical and Theoretical Underpinnings of Democracy

August 16, 2019 21:41 - 1 hour - 96.9 MB

John Montfort Dunn (born 9 September 1940) is emeritus Professor of Political Theory at King's College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Chiba University, Japan. Dunn's work focuses on applying a historical perspective to modern political theory. His early reputation was based upon the careful reconstruction of the political thought of John Locke: this benefited from Peter Laslett's critical edition of Locke's Two Treatises of Go...

What is the Future of Democracy?

August 02, 2019 19:33 - 1 hour - 116 MB

Between the Trump administration and global rise of populism, the domination of money in politics and steady replacement of thoughtful exchange by partisan maneuvering … it’s easy to feel gloomy about the state of Democracy. And yet, lost in the headlines and trending topics is a growing movement of activists, technology solutions and imaginative thinking that are re-conceiving the very nature of Democracy. On May 29th at Manny’s, join us for a discussion of how digital democracy is rewritin...

Liquid US General Update

July 23, 2019 11:38 - 11 minutes - 27 MB

This video gives supporters of Liquid US an overall understanding of what the organization has been up to recently, and where we plan to head next in order to promote our liquid democratic vision in America.

Meet Agatha Bacelar: The 27 Year Old Progressive Running for Congress Against Nanci Pelosi

July 12, 2019 09:00 - 34 minutes - 78.7 MB

https://www.agathaforcongress.com/ "I am a 27-year-old Brazilian-American immigrant and San Francisco resident running for U.S. Congress in California District 12. San Francisco has some of the youngest, most diverse, and technologically advanced residents of any district in the U.S. The technology dreamt up here ripples out to the entire world, and will continue to do so as another four billion people connect online in the next decade. AI, automation, and social media will continue to im...

Deepfakes in a Liquid Democracy

July 06, 2019 11:50 - 6 minutes - 15.7 MB

The problem of deepfakes is one that has been discussed quite frequently in politics and news media lately. There is a growing concern that deepfakes can be used to decieve people into thinking that a well-known figure said something they didn't. How might a liquid democracy help ameliorate the negative effects of deepfakes in politics, by shifting the focus of political discussions from people to ideas?

Brett Hennig: Sortition - Election of Political Officials from a Random Sample

June 27, 2019 09:53 - 38 minutes - 89.3 MB

Brett Hennig co-founded and directors the Sortition Foundation, which campaigns to institute the use of stratified, random selection (also called sortition) in government. Before co-founding the Sortition Foundation, Brett wore a variety of hats: as a taxi driver, a software engineer, a social justice activist, a mathematics tutor, and the primary carer of four boys. He finished his PhD in astrophysics just before his first son arrived. After spending several disheartening years in civil...

David Ernst & Cy Ray Interviewed on Liquid Democracy

June 08, 2019 04:10 - 1 hour - 59 MB

David Ernst & Cy Ray are building Liquid Democracy which is a 21st century rethinking of Democratic Representation.

Jon Barnes: Democracy Squared - A Digital Revolution that's about to Democratise Democracy

May 27, 2019 19:56 - 1 hour - 101 MB

Jon Barnes is a thinker and tinkerer, exploring alternatives to complex topics like education, work, democracy both in theory and through experimenting in my personal life. Learn more about his podcasts, talks and books via his website: http://jonbarnes.me/ On November 8, 2016, the night Donald Trump was elected President of The United States, John published his first book: "Democracy Squared", proposing ways to create a deeper and more distributed form of democracy supported by techno...

All About Liquid US, Privacy, and Security

May 27, 2019 19:05 - 1 hour - 92.6 MB

A lengthy explanation detailing our security and privacy practices, including an explanation of our proof of vote system.

Sara Wolk: STAR Voting Explained

May 22, 2019 16:06 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MB

Our current system: Currently elected county offices are filled using a "top two jungle primary" system involving a primary election in the spring and a general election in November. The election is non-partisan and no party labels show up on the ballot, so Democrats might be running against Democrats and Republicans running against Republicans. If a candidate gets a majority in the primary (50%+1 of the votes), that is the only candidate who appears on the November ballot -- even though ...

Jim Jonas: How National Nonpartisan Reformers are Rebuilding Representative Democracy

May 22, 2019 16:03 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MB

For more than 25 years, Jim Jonas has helped craft strategic, award-winning communication campaigns and projects for high-profile corporate, public affairs and political clients. He's been a pioneer in independent political reform efforts including co-founding Unity '08 and managing Greg Orman's US Senate campaign in 2014. Jim got his start in politics managing winning congressional campaigns in his native North Carolina before joining Ailes Communications as a writer and producer of polit...

Hélène Landemore: Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the 21st Century

May 22, 2019 15:59 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MB

Hélène Landemore is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Her research and teaching interests include democratic theory, political epistemology, theories of justice, the philosophy of social sciences (particularly economics), constitutional processes and theories, and workplace democracy. Her first book (in French) Hume. Probabilité et Choix Raisonnable (PUF: 2004) was a philosophical investigation of David Hume’s theory of decision-making. Her second book (in Eng...

Carl Miller: The Future of Democracy in the Digital Era

May 22, 2019 15:56 - 1 hour - 59.4 MB

Carl is the Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos. Miller's research investigates the pitfalls and promises of the digital age. His interests include politics and technology, cybercrime, war, journalism, the rise of the hackers, the threat of hate speech, the effects of automation and how social and political power is changing. This includes: He researches and writes widely on these issues, including for Wired, New Scientist, the Sunday Times, t...

Aaron Hamlin: The Science of Approval Voting

May 22, 2019 15:53 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MB

"Say there’s an independent or a third party candidate that you really like, but you’re looking at them and you think: ‘God, this person is never going to win, what I should really be doing is looking just among the major parties, and choosing a lesser of two evils.’ With approval voting, you don’t have to do that; you can have your cake and eat it too." -Aaron Hamlin Aaron focuses on technically-oriented, under-recognized social causes that offer ultra-high impact. He's the executive dir...

Sam Wang: Using Mathematics to Fix Gerrymandered Districts

May 12, 2019 10:20 - 45 minutes - 103 MB

The Princeton Gerrymandering Project bridges the gap between mathematics and the law to achieve fair representation through redistricting reform. Sam Wang has been a member of the Princeton faculty since 2000. He holds a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (1986) and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Stanford University School of Medicine (1993). A central feature of his laboratory research is the use and development of statistical tools for dealing with large, compl...

Santiago Siri: The Need for Decentralized Governance

May 11, 2019 10:17 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB

Santiago Siri is the founder of Democracy Earth Foundation, a Y Combinator backed non-profit building incorruptible digital governance technology; and Partido de la Red (Peers Party), first digital political party that ran for elections with candidates committed to people's will online. Partner of Bitex.la, leading bitcoin exchange in South America. Member of the World Economic Forum since 2012. Author of "Hacktivismo",​ published in 2015 by Random House.  

How Can I Support Liquid US and Promote Liquid Democracy?

May 11, 2019 04:20 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MB

Learn more at https://liquid.us www.LiquidFuture.org

Nathan Altman: Reflections with a Liquid Democratic Candidate for US Senate

April 12, 2019 00:45 - 1 hour - 90.5 MB

As a 30-year-old Indiana native, Nathan Altman has built a career on being an artist, maker and adventurer. When you see him in the community he’ll likely blend in with the hard-working people across our state, wearing a t-shirt and jeans—and the occasional layer of saw dust when he’s not in the office. Born and raised in Carmel, Indiana, Nathan grew up like many Indiana boys—playing and watching sports, getting his hands dirty building projects out in the barn, and spending a lot of time ...

Andrew Keen: How to Fix Democracy and Problems with Internet Culture

April 11, 2019 04:06 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MB

Andrew Keen is one of the world's best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution. He is the author of four books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo, international hit The Internet Is Not The Answer, and his latest book How To Fix The Future. Published in February 2018, How to Fix the Future has been called "[a] bracing book" by Walter Isaacson and "the most significant work so far in an emerging body of literature…in which technology's smartest thinkers are raising al...

Amber McReynolds: How I Modernized Denver's Electoral System and Broke Voter Turnout Records

April 10, 2019 22:57 - 42 minutes - 38.4 MB

Amber McReynolds is the Executive Director for the National Vote At Home Institute and Coalition and is the former Director of Elections for the City and County of Denver, Colorado. Amber is an experienced election professional and is nationally recognized as an innovator and has proven that designing pro-voter policies, voter-centric processes, and implementing technical innovations will improve the voting experience. Under her leadership, Denver Elections earned national and international ...

Democracy 2.0's Bugs

March 08, 2019 01:37 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB

The third episode of our new podcast, Liquid Future. This episode contains an explanation of Democracy 2.0's "bugs", in other words, the major issues with our current political system, and how liquid solves them. Now available for US Congress. Join us. https://liquid.us Thanks to OHD for allowing us to use his track, "Priorities".

Nick Troiano: How to End Partisanship and Polarization in US Politics

February 24, 2019 03:36 - 34 minutes - 39.7 MB

Nick Troiano has been involved in the political reform movement for over a decade, including running for U.S. Congress in 2014 as an independent candidate. Nick previously ran a bipartisan fiscal reform advocacy organization called The Can Kicks Back. In 2016, he was named to the "Forbes 30 Under 30" for Law & Policy. He is from Milford, Pennsylvania and graduated from Georgetown University with a Master’s Degree in American Government.   https://www.uniteamerica.org/nick_troiano   ...

Welcome to Liquid Future: A Liquid Democratic Experiment

February 22, 2019 14:59 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MB

The first episode of our new podcast, Liquid Future. This episode contains a full explanation and visual demonstration of how liquid democracy works. Now available for US Congress. Join us. https://www.liquid.us Thanks to OHD for allowing us to use his track, "Priorities".