“ Political movement to have citizens of the Internet represented in the US Senate, by the permanent installation of a computer in the Senate chambers streaming twitter traffic with the hashtag #101stsenator.
During oral arguments, a speech synthesis program could be activated to read off portions of the stream.
Bonus: CNN et al could stop spending airtime reading random people’s twitter streams on the air, deferring instead to The Honorable Senator’s actual gestalt statements directly.
✐ Thinkstank — ‘Senator Twitter (I-Internet)’
During oral arguments, a speech synthesis program could be activated to read off portions of the stream.
Bonus: CNN et al could stop spending airtime reading random people’s twitter streams on the air, deferring instead to The Honorable Senator’s actual gestalt statements directly.
✐ Thinkstank — ‘Senator Twitter (I-Internet)’