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• A reply on Talk: Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government

  Sep 25 2012: I agree with your concerns. However, the system does not need to end with version control. Less technical citizen users (aka "product" owners) can have access to an issue tracking system where they can vote for certain "commits" posted by "developers". Commits can be "deployed" only if they garner sufficient votes.
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  A comment on Talk: Richard Resnick: Welcome to the genomic revolution

  Sep 16 2011: The alternative to genetically modified crops is not "not eating", but eating insects, as suggested in this TED talk [http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/marcel_dicke_why_not_eat_insects.html]
  
  That said, I am open to genetically modified food, unlike many of my friends. And genetic modification of humans.

• A comment on Conversation: Implement a TED-style Open-democracy social-networking Website for gov, citizens, voting on issues, bills, elections, local, state, National

  Feb 18 2011: Great idea. An essential central component of such a system would be identity management. Since this system should ideally be global, the big question is, who should be the custodian of all that data? The solution is to structure the framework in such a way that every user is in control of her own data at all times. Private enterprises could offer "Personal Data Lockers" (Amazon and Google would be good candidates) that conform to globally accepted security standards.
  
  If you aren't already familiar with how the internet is moving from "push" to "pull" take a look at www.thepowerofpull.com

• A comment on Conversation: Physical Internet - A framework on which to run transportation "apps" such as "schoolbus", "ambulance", "commuter", etc.

  Feb 18 2011: Thanks for the response, Seema. Environmental impact is naturally one of the main objectives.
  
  There are many innovative transportation solutions emerging across the world. I am suggesting that we treat individual transportation solutions as "transit apps" (much like software apps) and create an open source standards-based transit framework to host these apps. It would be infinitely scalable and continuously upgradable. There is no reason successful software development methodologies can't be applied to physical infrastructure development.
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  A reply on Talk: Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation

  Oct 7 2010: How about letting users include a transcript of their own video alongside the video response? This would create good metadata while allowing the audience to choose between text and video as per convenience.
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  A comment on Talk: Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation

  Sep 14 2010: Chris, why is there no video response feature on TED.com?