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The Art of Politics: A Friction-Free Future? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--BRAVE NEW CYBERWORLD |
| Author: Pete du Pont |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 1,435 Words, 9,172 Characters |
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It was the summer of 1995, and Web browsing was on months old when I entered the Internet world. Diane Atwood, founder of A2S2 Digital Projects, told me about the company's new on-line venture called Policy.com. This set out to become the We's largest network of think tanks, advocacy groups, and other policy organizations—from the ultraliberal to the radical conservative—to enable Intenet users to access and compare ideas about public policy issues.
The Internet provides obvious parallel to Adam Smith's economic views in The Wealth of Nations. He would have seen the Internet as the ultimate vehicle for the frictionless flow of goods and services, an "obvious and simple system of natural liberty" that is pulling us all together into a global marketplace where we can trade and barter good...
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... issues, and reach a better understanding of public policy. The quality of the discourse has been extremely high, and we are very happy with both the progress we have made and the extent to which we have contributed to the debate.
Ideas do have consequences. I believe that IC and the Internet as a whole have helped thousands of people better understand both the ideas and their consequences.
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