Andreessen Horowitz are well known for the theory that "software will eat the world." I am a big believer in this. I was recently asked to speak at the Banff Forum, a Canadian think-tank, and talked about this, combined with how "open development" alongside software would challenge everything we do over the next twenty-five to fifty years. It is fairly easy to point to software eating the world with books (Amazon), travel (Expedia and others), trading, etc. It was a little bit harder for me to find great examples about how software will eat government, beyond the standard open.gov data initiatives. Thus, I was quite intrigued with Clay Shirky's TED talk about how git , the software version control system, could apply to law and the democratic process. In Clay's words, it is a new form of arguing, that is compatible with the democratic process. (Nice to Mozilla in the top seven links on the site :-) Git's distributed content management is