Emmanuel Macron and collective intelligence

We vote for archetypes In principle, an election is based on the informed choice made by citizens based on a rational political program. However, in practice, only a minority of voters take the time to read the programs, and an even smaller minority remembers the content of the program only one year after the election… So, if it is not …

Augmented Democracy: 7 proposals to reinvent politics

This article is the continuation of “What if Plato had created a startup? “. It examines seven simple proposals that would revolutionize our current political model through the marriage of collective intelligence and digital technology. 1. Vote for projects rather than for candidates The current political system forces voters to choose a candidate and the program he / she represents, …

What if Plato had created a startup?

The Internet has disrupted all sectors: communication, education, transport, distribution, finance … There is one, however, that has not yet been reinvented by Internet: politics. We still function today according to principles that were established more than two and a half millennia ago by philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, who first modeled the different systems of power within the …

What can collective intelligence do for your organization?

Collective intelligence can be a fantastic lever to unleash creativity, generate commitment and increase the performance your company. Actually, collective intelligence is probably the only thing that can enable humanity to overcome the challenges it faces: social injustice, the return of fanaticism, ecological distress have become so great that no institution can claim to solve them anymore. Only a collective …

The 3 reasons why France became the most depressive country in the World

According to BVA-Gallup, the French have become one of the most unhappy people in the world. With a negative index of -79, France is the latest ranking of the 51 countries surveyed by the institute. This is a historical record, since no country has ever reached such a low score in the 34-years history of the index.[1] This figure is …

Democracy of fear

Do we truly enjoy freedom only when we are about to lose it? Everything goes as if our societies became incapable of understanding the importance of democratic values, except when a major crisis is about to deprive us of our rights. The terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo gives a good illustration of this. After the initial trauma, the weeks that …

Let’s create a Reality Game to save the World

We spend more than 50 hours a week watching television, surfing on the Internet and playing video games. Today, entertainment became the first activity of people in all industrialized countries. A synonym of entertainment is distraction, whose etymology means: diversion of attention. In other words, we spend most of our time to divert our mind of something. But what exactly? …