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We can improve democracy TODAY. Will we?

When democracy was ‘invented’ in Greece, citizens (but just the free ones) of the Polis, the city, would join together at the Ágora, a hill outside Athens, to discuss matters of the interest of the society and vote to create policies (named after the Polis). Every citizen (again, just the free ones) had a voice […]

Suggestion for George Church’s next company

This NYT article about Colossal amazes me for 3 reasons: The audacity of George Church’s initiatives His ability to convince other people to invest high amounts of money in his bold initiatives The risk tolerance of the venture capital ecosystem in the US Initiatives like Colossal, Nebula Genomics and Warp BioDrive (just to mention two of his other companies that I follow/ed […]