For the first time in history, decentralized voting is now something we the people can use in order to accomplish a lot of things, not just electing a president, which is something of the past, who needs a president these days with all these powerful code, and new ideas about smart contracts. If there is people out there thinking to vote just to elect a president, then they are loosing their time. We need no more presidents in times when technology can support in order to achieve consensus in a faster and accurate way. And that's what Ethereum is doing, using open source software in order to create smart contracts.
The DAO was a failed experiment. BUT that was at the same time a great experience and a great event, thanks to that Ethereum is getting stronger now, and the next DAO (Decentralized autonomous organizations) will be even stronger in terms of security and functionality.
You may want to take a look here and see how successful the Ethereum's hard fork was: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/ethereum-successfully-hardforks/
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