Given adequate group processes, a community's decisions will always tend to be wiser than an individual's by integrating a wide variety of viewpoints, which ameliorates blind spots.
Without community, democracy is empty. M. Scott Peck, author of another classic on community, The Different Drum, calls this "The most comprehensive book I know of about the community movement."
Trudy and Peter Johnson-Lenz, who coined the terms "groupware" and "using diversity creatively", have for decades advocated bridging humans and technology to faciltate collaborative exploration, learning and work. Their latest collaborative inquiry on Practicing Our Wisdom Together in Cyberspace explores dozens of questions vital to building a wiser democracy.