Reddit mentions of Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco

>The dominant political entities of the future will be those which are able to best inform their decisions by extracting wisdom from their crowd.

I disagree. I believe the dominant political entities of the future will be those that are able to control information by producing data to manipulate the crowds. Even today, this is what data is increasingly about: controlling people through data and algorithms. Politics will become less about gathering data from crowds, but how crowds fit certain ranges of data. Analogously, it's like how Hillary Clinton was said to be quick to respond to polls that showed the crowd wanted one thing over another, while Donald Trump caters to a specific demographic regardless of polls. I think there will be a general movement toward the latter style on both sides of political spectrum.

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At least that's my opinion informed by reading books like To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism and Society of the Spectacle and Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco, among others.