Information technology should hand more decisions to markets and make democracy affordable where it was not. Bigger groups raise every supermind's decision costs except markets', and cheaper communication helps most the types that were too costly, so Malone expects liquid democracy in governments and businesses and markets taking over work other superminds did.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  For instance, we should expect that IT-enabled innovations like liquid democracy will enable more democratic voting in governments and in businesses, and that markets will continue to take over functions in our society that were previously done by other types of superminds.

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  Therefore, as information technologies continue to increase the size of groups that can make decisions together, it's very likely that markets will take over even more of these decisions.

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