Currently, as a democratic society, we are limited by our election and referendum and parliamentary debate process so that very few bits of horizon scanning can propagate to the entire society. This is partly why we’re doing this sending hundreds of thousands of random people’s SMS. It’s just to create a citizens’ assembly so that people feel it’s normal to talk about emerging threats to their jobs, to their mental health or whatever, and also learn to assemble by themselves like small juries locally and so on, and have a reliable way to synthesize those collective discoveries.

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