Democracy 2.0

摘要

When weighing up the fallout of the WikiLeaks saga, both governments and citizens would be wise to remember the words of that advocate of peaceful democratic change, Mohandas Gandhi: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." The release of thousands of (frankly underwhelming) secret US diplomatic cables is so much more than the story of a man who thumbed his nose at a superpower. The events ofthepast few weeks may well mark the time that new technologies made good on their promise to remodel democracy; traditional democracy has been found wanting.