Some of them even form DAO’s, decentralized-autonomous-organizations and so on, while protecting their pseudonymity. So, I think I am optimistic to say that the online to offline movements that take some of those style ideas and to organize in-person meetings, like the Zoo-project, or whatever. I think that makes a lot of sense in that, if we can develop strong personal links using deliberative direct democratic tools online, we will feel like a community, a neighborhood, neighbors even before meeting each other physically for the first time. So then afterwards, we can mobilize offline action later, when there is the right action to be made. And the incubation period can be as long as a few decades because Internet will probably still be around for another 20 years. So, I’m optimistic. But I do hear you and see the challenge in the immediate physical neighborhood.

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