The current mode is an accelerating connectivity, an increasingly social and portable web propagated via gadgets and marketing that enable and encourage instantaneously monetized user-generated products (including thought-actions as data). It’s as if “sharing” is offered up as an antidote to alienation, and yet the revenue generated from this sharing still lands with the fat cats. The trade-off, of course, from an end user perspective, is an “enriched” user experienced that users knowingly and lovingly create– that is to say, a sense of ownership. But already there is a kind of profit-sharing occurring online between brands and the individuals that traffic these brands, and there is also a data-portability movement underway that would put users in control of their own data (which they could then monetize). It’s these kind of trends (self-surveillance, fusion of brand/consumer, crowd-sourcing, etc.) that I’m referring to when I say the state is being replaced by the individual. Why alienate when fostering community is so much more effective at managing and evolving the system?