I suspect the concept of the network state will be a major part of the evolutionary process away from nation-states and monocentric legal systems toward panarchism and polycentrism.

Balaji Srinivasan recently published The Network State, which explores ideas surrounding digital communities and the future of how we coordinate as a species. A startup society fosters the emergence of network unions, which evolve into a network archipelago—eventually calcifying into the network state. As we muse about the fate of human systems, we explore mental models for understanding the digital revolution and how we can allow coordination to thrive.