So-called electronic democracy will be the end of participatory democracy. While direct democracy may be viable for microscopic societies like the Swiss cantons or university AG's, it cannot be viable on a worldwide scale. Each time a wall is reached, there is a retreat. And history has just struck the wall of worldwide time. With live transmission, local time no longer creates history.
Worldwide time does.
In other words, real time conquers real space, space-time. We must reflect on this paradoxical situation which places us in a kind of outside-time. Faced as we are with this time accident, an accident with no equal. Worldwide application brings about the autonomization of limited groups. In other words, of sects that share power.