The COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 caused the rate of people that use the software in their daily lives to increase exponentially. In this context, the groundbreaking changes brought about by the technological developments in the economy have caused and continue to be revolutionary changes in society. Therefore, political institutions should also be expected to undergo a transformation. The first indication of this situation occurred on January 6, 2021, when the President of the United States was blocked for twelve hours from sending messages to the public on Twitter. This article includes an examination of this issue from the perspectives of the History of Political Thought, Computer Science, and Political Science.
As a result, the changes in technology are expected to create changes in political systems. It is emphasized in this article that the biggest technological change in the Information Revolution might well be expected to be a result of the digitization of social activities. When we exclude the scenarios where the individual or the state prevails in the dystopian sense, it can be expected that the “governance” model will be effective in the political systems of the new era. This can be seen as a guarantee for humanity that the current software developments are not possible in the establishment of a political structure that does not have a human factor, at least at the level of current science. Future studies, on the other hand, should be carried out on how the governance model in question, in which the human factor is effective, should eventuate.
