Given the strength and spread of these trends, why aren’t we seeing a major transition in terms of systems of governance happening around the world? I’d like to suggest, again, that these developments are up against too strong forces of social and political inertia inherent to the existing structures of governance for them to spread, take hold and begin a true journey of iterative improvement. It is simply too heavy, difficult and, in a general sense, “expensive” to shift the systems of governance for any rich plethora of small actors to succeed in doing so.
