How Technology Will Forever Influence Politics Part 4

Ok so you've heard the good, of how technology is going to influence politics, but what about the bad.

With the advent of e-voting machines without proper security, it becomes easier to rig elections and tamper with the evidence as there is no paper trail. It is easier for a politician to get into your living room than ever before, with internet, email, tv, telephone, and radio ads at their disposal. It will be easier for people with power, to stay in power, and personal battles between politicians including smear campaigns, will be wide spread.


So that my friends is a four part series on how Technology, will forever influence politics.

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How Technology Will Forever Influence Politics Part 2

In my last post in this series, I described how technology would allow the average person to not only have a say in how their government is run, but actually run it themselves. In other words, the average politician now-a-days will be a dinosaur in the future.
This point for me was fully proven when I saw this article today about how Al Franken, SNL writer and star turned political humorist and author is running for the U.S Senate. Franken himself says that he is "not the typical politician" and this is the first step towards the change that is going to come. Fifty years ago, a comedian running for president would be ludicrous. Today, it's just starting to be acceptable.
(And probably 90% of the college students of America would vote for John Stewart of the Daily Show if he ran for president.)

How Technology will Forever Influence Politics Part 1

NOTE: I am going to break this series into parts, because I'm too lazy to type everything tonight, I have a lot of work to do.


Technology is forever going to change politics. In some ways for the better, and in some ways for the worse. On the good side, it will increase political accountability, and it will give the average man a chance to be heard and even to run for office. For the worse, with the advent of electronic voting machines and other sources of media smear campaigns can more easily be run, and elections can more easily be rigged.

Political accountability is the best part about this new political stage created by technology. The public can easily scrutinize every move a politician makes, making it harder to slip votes that were bought under the noses of the people. Technology also brings a platform for the politician to be heard more easily about every issue facing us today using online mediums from podcasts, to blogs to YouTube.

Part Two Coming tommorow.