Good thing:
The ability to be able to vote from your computer or even shortly from your handheld device or cell phone can only help to increase voter turn out or *turn on*.
Bad thing:
Information->infomercial->commercialization->corpo rozation of everything including bandwidth use will result in more avenues of revenue for corporations and the inclination to watch your every move which will lead to big brother syndrom.
Conclusion
The good thing will cancel out the bad thing since it allows the emergence and success of third parties like reform party (yuk) or the green party (woohoo) that will curtail corporate abuse.
Side note:
Personaly I can not live without internet access or information access any longer. If it were to go away now, I will wither and die.
But then again that's what every drug addict thinks before letting go of the substance.
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Good thing:o rozation of everything including bandwidth use will result in more avenues of revenue for corporations and the inclination to watch your every move which will lead to big brother syndrom.
The ability to be able to vote from your computer or even shortly from your handheld device or cell phone can only help to increase voter turn out or *turn on*.
Bad thing:
Information->infomercial->commercialization->corp
Conclusion The good thing will cancel out the bad thing since it allows the emergence and success of third parties like reform party (yuk) or the green party (woohoo) that will curtail corporate abuse.
Side note: Personaly I can not live without internet access or information access any longer. If it were to go away now, I will wither and die.
But then again that's what every drug addict thinks before letting go of the substance.