Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished

Wild Card's progress: Basic

This Wild Card came from: 
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD

The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card: 
Theme 8 - Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities

The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card: 
Participation and citizenship in Europe

Likelihood timeframe and scenario features : 
now-2025

Wild Card's description: 

The crisis of trust in politicians and elected democracy deepens: direct preference-based decision-making is developed as a commercial Facebook type service, backed by private equity transnational corporations (TNCs). The first ‘pre-paid power’ service is launched EU-wide in 2021.