"We have to think about this stuff now, before we build it, otherwise we’ll just find it happening around us. If it’s a bad thing and it’s already invested, money and power on the line, it’s much harder to roll something back. For example: we’re working on distributed voting here. We thought: Hey, wouldn’t it be great if we just polled people all the time? How about if we had something where you could, in theory, poll a huge number of people at any given time on a given issue: how democratic would that be? What if every afternoon you voted on a bunch of things and that actually governed how the country worked? So we built it. We have a system that could do that now.