It has been a phenomenal series so far. Many good things to think about.
I have enjoyed your substack articles too. One idea stuck out to me as needing serious consideration and was about direct democracy voting, “cooling-off periods to curb snap judgments.” We have not given enough thought to the e-voter experience. So far the e-voter is expected to look at the issue up for vote and then make their vote within seconds or minutes of their first hearing about the topic.
A far better idea would be that an e-voter has to log in and review the material up for vote. The system logs that they have reviewed the material and then “check-marks” them to be eligible for voting. The vote comes 2-4 weeks after they have reviewed the voting material, and so, in theory, they have had weeks to think about the issue and do their own research or talk to their friends/family about the issue and then vote later on the voting day. Any voter that is mentally incapable of doing the above steps would disqualify themselves via the e-system.