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Reminds me of the quote from the game Deus Ex:

The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because human beings themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system, an industrial-age machine.

Without the use of computing machines our ancestors had to arrange themselves in crude structures that formalized decision-making.

Now are merely developing a decision-making system that does not involve organic beings.



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