{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6976645849ef755216abf69d/6976665335a98abf7cda7bf8?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Announcing: The Cognitive Republic","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6976645849ef755216abf69d/1769366755090-855bc4f5-3807-40a6-893b-5164ad768385.jpeg?height=200","description":"<h1>Announcing: The Cognitive Republic</h1><h2>What you can expect</h2><p><strong><em>This is my new home for a new mission:</em></strong>&nbsp;a book-length project written online, in public - a new and scary experience for me, and I hope an exhilarating experience for you - the reader.</p><p>And now available as a podcast - for you - the listener.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Cognitive Republic: Building Societies That Experiment, Learn, and Evolve.</em></strong></a></p><p><strong><em>Reinventing Democracies as Learning, Adaptive, Systems</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Cognitive Republic&nbsp;</em></strong>started life as a book proposal:</a> I have decided instead to release it here piece-by-piece to test the arguments and to engage in thinking in public.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">You can subscribe for regular email updates here - chapter by chapter, as well as lots of bonus content.</a></p><p><br></p><p>Liberal democracy does not need more moral rhetoric or further arguments about liberals versus conservatives or big versus small government; these arguments are tedious, care-worn, and fruitless. They are getting us nowhere.&nbsp;<em>We need to move on from this way of doing business.</em></p>","author_name":"Shane O'Mara"}