6.12.1 This design revolution must employ world-around, satellite interlinked, data-banks-and-computer accomplished conversion of present-day exclusively geocentric, Spaceship Earth wealth accounting by synchronising our planetary economic affairs with the cosmic, interstellar, intergalactic, complex family of physical, time-energy behaviour laws, demonstrated by astrophysics to be synergistically in economic governance not only through Milky Way's 100 billion stars, but also throughout the two billion additional such galaxies now discovered and observed by astrophysics within our phototelescopic range. (Fuller, 1981, pg. 199)

6.12.2 Edward Soja suggests thinking trialectically when considering new viewpoints about place, location, and geography, without resorting to the usual binaries:

6.12.3 Thinking trialectically is a necessary part of understanding Thirdspace as a limitless composition of lifeworlds that are radically open and openly radicalisable; that are all-inclusive and transdisciplinary in scope yet politically focused and susceptible to strategic choice; that are never completely knowable but whose knowledge none the less guides our search for emancipatory change and freedom from domination. Trialectical thinking is difficult, for it challenges all conventional modes of thought and taken-for-granted epistemologies. It is disorderly, unruly, constantly evolving, unfixed, never presentable in permanent constructions.(Soja,1996, pg. 70)

6.12.4 Pierre Levy distinguishes community into three political categories: organic (families, clans and tribes); organised, or molar groups (nations, institutions and corporations); and self-organised, or molecular groups that realise themselves "in direct democracy within large communities in the process of mutation and deterritorialisation." (Levy,1997, pg. 51)

6.12.5 The new methods of management, molecular or nanopolitics, are not planned communities but emergent communities. These types of communities require the technical infrastructure that allows for real-time collective intelligence work. In order to consider how these infrastructures may emerge, it is important to consider some universal principles of information architectures. In the following chapter I will take a look at some scientific discoveries which could help to begin envisioning how to create open architectures allowing for the constantly evolving, unfixed space to emerge. Ultimately, anything that is materialised as static is bound to crack under pressure of the surrounding chaos. When conceiving designs of network spaces, it is critical to think of open, long term systems, beyond the short-sighted visions of product based, gated, mall societies. [top]