The problem here is that for better and worse, O'Reilly is seeing government as most of us do, from his own perspective. Thus a technophile's faith in gadgetry and a mogul's love of private enterprise are a given. Add those two together, with government acting as a mere foundation, and you seem to have the essence of "government as platform."

While he no doubt is being honestly altruistic here, it's telling that this form of government would be really, really beneficial to technologist entrepreneurs: in short, people like him.

That's a flaw, and a nasty one. For one thing, it's hard to see how a "government as platform" would handle issues of power, violence and class; the most pressing for any society.