
So it's not a scarcity. My speaking Athenian Greek doesn't stop you from speaking Athenian Greek — and if it did, no democracy would be possible. So it's a design problem. We need to design technology as civic technology. My definition is: technology that's responsive to community needs and correctable by communities. And the more communities adopt it, the easier it becomes for new communities to adopt the same protocols, thanks to open source and shared infrastructure.