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.

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. 

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.