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. 

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. 

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.