Colin Megill. He told me about that. And I also wrote then in my first book I called “Smartphone Democracy” about this case. And he showed me this live demo. And it was really astonishing, as you said. There he showed me this example: Do we want to have Uber in Taiwan or not? As you said, the example of ridesharing. And it was really stunning. He… then I saw this plurality of opinions clustering. And how these clusters are connected and where the bridges are. So it really shows this plurality of opinions. And also as you said, there was no reply field to avoid the troll comments. So my conclusion was then: It’s really all about the design of technology at the end. The political design. Do you agree with that? Or is it too easy to say that?

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