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 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.