Strategic advantage now accrues to those who can navigate multiple systems simultaneously—processing complexity where others cannot and maintaining access through both formal and informal channels.

Information transparency gives way to strategic withholding of data, where states and corporations engineer information asymmetry as a competitive advantage, rather than open themselves up to accountability. 

Stable political organising logics dissolve into real-time algorithm-shaped remixing, where contradictory positioning emerges as strategic advantage rather than weakness. 

Agreed social norms of global empathy shift away from care for universal causes, to solidarity reserved only for those in proximity, as defined by identity, geography or immediate networks. 

The global shift from durable alliances to transactional arrangements rewards optionality over commitment. Those who cannot maintain multiple partnerships simultaneously find themselves locked into arrangements others can exit at will. 

Global climate governance is shifting from coordinated mitigation to fragmented adaptation, as cities, states and regions build independent climate responses while multilateral frameworks stall. 

The old networks which were committed to social good—working toward transparency, accountability and pluralism—are shape-shifting by changing how they portray themselves publicly and moving more of their activities and communications out of view. 

Migration systems shift from implicit selectivity to explicit human asset classification via algorithmic scoring that stratifies mobility by economic value rather than rights. 

The climate window is narrowing just as the energy transition fragments into competing systems, each embedding dependencies that will shape emissions through 2070. 

Money is mutating—its three functions are unbundling into a profusion of rarely interoperable money things, of which the dollar is only one of many— requiring organisations to use and support a multiplicity of financial systems that will continually combine, fork and fail. 

Technology infrastructure is splintering into incompatible sovereign systems as nations pursue independence through different models, creating permanent fragmentation.