https://madkatomega.blog/tags/government/Recent content in Government on Madkat OmegaHugoen-usFri, 31 Jul 2026 14:37:22 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-ancient-source-of-neon-and-chrome/Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:37:22 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-ancient-source-of-neon-and-chrome/There is a moment near the start of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, published in 1984, when the reader learns exactly what kind of story this is going to be. Case, a washed-up console cowboy, has been…https://madkatomega.blog/posts/forking-the-government-taiwans-civic-hackers-and-the-american-case-for-networked-democracy/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:57:28 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/forking-the-government-taiwans-civic-hackers-and-the-american-case-for-networked-democracy/In late 2012, the government of Taiwan released an advertisement for its Economic Power-Up Plan. The ad’s message, repeated over and over, amounted to this: we have a very complex plan, it is too…https://madkatomega.blog/posts/where-the-machine-must-stop/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:39:50 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/where-the-machine-must-stop/Between the corporations optimizing us out of the org chart and the governments optimizing us out of the decision, there is a third path: bound the machine, and let institutions be human.