Chapter 22 deals mostly with the disintegration of states – as seen through secessionist movements in the USA, Canada, Australia and former European empires’ colonies and so on. Moreover, due to internal pressures and external interventions, the national power of governments is more and more often redirected to local or regional institutions and to international organizations, such as the UN and the IMF. An increasingly significant contribution to this systematic development is brought by transnational and multinational corporations, who are present on different continents and different countries, meaning that their interest is global, as is their influence.
When it comes to the development of First Wave countries (or third world, for a better understanding), advocates of the moribund Second Wave civilization suggest introducing more and more machinery to modernize the nation. Conversely, the First Wave attitude and mentality might have involved the rejection of machines and the introduction of more man-power in order to reduce unemployment and to make sure the social benefit is higher. However, the Third Wave society tries to balance these two elements, making sure that production is not wasting energy that would be better in addressing social, cultural, ecological, familial and psychological issues.
Towards this end, the new approach favours local energy suppliers, and, even more, the introduction of domestic/home-based/small scale energy generators, be them solar or otherwise. Furthermore, with the advent of electronics, the new civilization needs to ensure the technological progress does not prove destructive and that social and cultural values are maintained.
What is certain about the future is that it will be built around a matrix and not hierarchy, meaning that there will be multiple streams of information and different ways to go around any given problem, resulting in a “practopia”, caused not by one factor, but by a complex combination.
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