I believe that the days of centralised power are numbered, and that a re-tribalisation of society is an inevitable, if sometimes painful, process. The applied theories of politics, economics and industry have made a sick society; it is time for new approaches. We live in the post-industrial world, and have an immense amount of sophisticated information and technology which enables us to exchange information while living in a village situation. -Bill Mollison, Introduction to Permaculture (1991)

According to network/complexity theory anything is now possible, acting locally and thinking-communicating globally and every other aspect of life in between: No one and no idea need be constrained in solving the world’s problems in this new scale-free world of possibilities.

We now have the empowering possibility of using the new technologies to network and to transform the socio-economic world, to sort out the best of humanity’s knowledge - both millenia old and blue skies new - to reconnect people and communities, and to bypass the anachronistic causes of stasis. Change!