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Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing offline politics

by Douglas Rushkoff

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An Excerpt from the book-Chapter 1 From Moses to modems: demystifying the storytelling and taking controlWe are living in a world of stories. We can't help but use narrativesto understand the events that occur around us. The unpredictability ofnature, emotions, social interactions and power relationships ledhuman beings from prehistoric times to develop narratives thatdescribed the patterns underlying the movements of these forces.Although we like to believe that primitive people actually believedthe myths they created about everything, from the weather to theafterlife, a growing camp of relig...

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