29/05/2026
Pigeons for messages. Gone. Horses for transport. Gone. Candles for light. Gone. Fax machines. Mostly gone. Phone books. Gone. Paper maps. Gone.
Every single tool we had for communicating, moving, and organizing has been replaced by something faster, cheaper, and more reliable. We didn’t fight it. We celebrated it.
But there’s one thing that somehow slipped through the cracks.
Group decisions.
Right now, in 2026, thousands of groups around the world still print stacks of paper, fold them, mail them, wait weeks, and then count them by hand in a room.
The same way they did in 1950. And 1970. And 1990. And 2010.
Why? Not because it works well. Anyone who’s been part of this process knows it doesn’t. Low participation. Lost forms. Arguments about the count. Days of waiting for results.
It survived because nobody questioned it. Because „we’ve always done it this way“ became the only justification anyone needed.
But you wouldn’t say that about anything else in your life. You don’t use a phone book because you’ve always used one. You use what works.
So why is this the exception?
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