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So I feel strongly that law should be more fully open-sourced: modularized, forkable, diffable, OSS licensed, kept in searchable repositories along with open (not gated) databases of rulings, and incorporated via reference into city, county, province, and country codes.
San Francisco voters should be able to propose a ballot initiative to adopt Houston's pro-housing growth codes v 2.3, along with specified patch us-ca-2018-11.01 to adapt the codes to match the "API" of the other city & county codes & the CA state constitution.
Colorado voters (aided by @jaredpolis) should be able to adopt Portugal's harm-reduction drug legalization; or a @BlueFrontiers seastead to use @delaware_gov's corporate law. Laws can & should be remixed, refactored, and reused for diversity and constant innovation.
As @mattwridley so brilliantly said at TED: the engine of human progress and prosperity has been ideas having sex (https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex …). And laws are ideas. So just imagine the prosperity that could be unleashed if laws evolved at Silicon Valley speed.
That's why I'm so excited that @StartSocieties (on whose board I serve) is creating ULEX, the first open-source legal system (and it's supporting infrastructure). As appropriate for an OSS project, we're crowdfunding it, so please consider donating:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ulex-an-open-source-legal-system-community--2/ …
I understand the enthusiasm, but I'm not sure the latest few years of election experience in UK and US indicates that we are ready for that kind of detailed direct democracy tbh.
The ballot proposition was just meant as an example. The main idea here is not greater direct democracy, it's upgrading the technology around legal systems using our tools & concepts from software. Laws are already partly modular, partly open-source, etc. - let's ramp that up!
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