One computer to rule them all

What a frightening thought the idea of Stalinist regimes running a microchipped society might be. Holding all your data, recording your votes, perfect surveillance …

Some bright individual in Hackney however thinks this is a real goer, and has launched the Direct Democracy (Communist) Party, believing that perfect planning could be achieved by computer based distribution networks. This party wants “the control of production and distribution by all the workers through the networking of their computers to the central computer.”

Meanwhile the Stalinists will guarantee “the direct participation of all workers in administration of the state”. Or vice-versa, maybe.

The party has a website. Perhaps in a sign of things to come, it isn’t working.

Jim Killock's site