I think this is a good example of a subgroup of “liberals” who are intelligent and well-intentioned: modern software/bio hackers (in the classical MIT sense, not the pseudo-hacker news buzzword sense).
To quote the article:
“Like Mike Migurski’s Crimespotting, the Muni iPad app shows what useful tools people can build when the government (a) opens up its data and (b) gets the hell out of the way.”
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I just finished reading this and figured you’d find it interesting:
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/01/hacking-democracy/
I think this is a good example of a subgroup of “liberals” who are intelligent and well-intentioned: modern software/bio hackers (in the classical MIT sense, not the pseudo-hacker news buzzword sense).
To quote the article:
“Like Mike Migurski’s Crimespotting, the Muni iPad app shows what useful tools people can build when the government (a) opens up its data and (b) gets the hell out of the way.”