Il faut faire attention à comment les gens utilisent ces outils, où sont les opportunités… Si nous n'y prenons garde, nous finirons avec des lois qui limitent sévèrement l'accès des populations à l'utilisation d'internet partout dans le monde.

Rahaf Harfoush est responsable de la stratégie des médias sociaux au World Economic Forum, après avoir eu un rôle dans l'organisation de la campagne politique d'Obama sur le net. La question qu'elle adresse à l'assistance de Lift est simple : “Comment les réseaux sociaux transforment-ils notre interaction avec le monde politique ? Internet a-t-il un impact sur la façon dont les citoyens peuvent influencer la politique ?

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Environmentalists may not change. In a way it's almost irrelevant whether environmentalists change and take the lead because the political situation suggests that we don't have the global institutions to deal with a global problem. A lot of the best information comes from the United Nations, the United Nations studies on cities and slums and things like this and population are about the best source you can find.

If it weren't there, we wouldn't have good information about those things, but it does not have administrative power. We probably don't want a planetary government but I suspect that if we go too far down climate catastrophe that could be something you wind up with, a bad planetary government. What you want is planetary collaboration mainly of the main governments that exist now.

STEWART BRAND is cofounder and co-chairman of The Long Now Foundation. He is the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, cofounder of The Well, and cofounder of Global Business Network.