I had no idea why this thing I saw as a kid popped into my head this afternoon, but it did, and a quick search found a full copy on YouTube. It begins by the people of the US voting for the space station to be recognised as a sovereign state by turning their lights on and off at night, and a NASA orbiting module tabulating the result.
Buckminster Fuller as a consultant!
Earth II’s live electronic democracy system has built in fact- and rhetoric-checking. In the form of chyrons thrown up over live video.
