This paper has examined parliamentary digital infrastructure as material culture encoding cultural assumptions about collective cognition. Our analysis reveals systematic failure across 25 nations to implement structural conditions necessary for collective intelligence.

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How do 1.5 million wildebeest coordinate an 1,800-mile migration with no leader, no parliament, and no CEO — while three billion of us can't coordinate on Facebook? An argument for why software licensing, specifically AGPL-3, is the infrastructure of a free society.