Yes. I think democracy needs to be revitalized. In Taiwan, we see democracy like semiconductor, a social technology that you can introduce a new upgrade to every few months. Because the current form of democracy really only allows people to express their opinion in very low bandwidth. If you vote for one person out of, say, eight candidates, that is just three bits of information. And you have to wait four years before you can cast your next vote. But the world is changing so quickly. It is impossible for this very low bandwidth picture to capture what people truly want—for example, when deepfakes hit, or the infodemic, or the pandemic, and so on.

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