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It's 1985. James Burke is walking around in some hills. And then he delivers a scintillating piece to camera about how politics is going to change in the digital age.

Totally. Crazy.

And, decades later, Burke’s vision is just beginning to come true. unherd.com/2018/09/save-d…
It's amazing how correct a tiny slither of actual visionaries trying to peer into a digital future could be. Another was JCR Licklider - I talk about him here:
BUY MY BOOK OK - (it IS actually about digital democracy, but is admittedly 1% as good as James Burke) amazon.co.uk/Death-Gods-Glo…
Everyone - I'd just like to say, thank you. You've all brought a bit of James Burke into a lot of peoples' lives - many I suspect who weren't around to see this the first time around. And that's a really lovely thing.
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