Development of the Internet and the attendant "digital information revolution" portends the emergence of the basis for global human meta-culture. The Internet offers a truly scale-free framework by which transmission of culture can be achieved at any point in the globe at any time. Of course, preexisting human social structures and formations are inclined at some point to impeded and interfere with this kind of developmental process occurring, though in the long run it will be inevitable unless the human race manages to destroy itself or at least send itself into a new Dark Age. 

But the development of a global meta-culture that is embedded and that is capable of becoming a foundation for the re-identification and symbolic unification of humankind under a common, albeit complex ideological umbrella, remains dependent upon effectively overcoming corporate-level resistance from human-made obstacles and screens of resistance that carry the weight of convention, tradition, ethno-national community, ethnocultural identity, etc. 

I have lived in both a communist and a capitalist system. The human substrate in each is more or less the same, fundamentally. Neither system, from the structural standpoint, appears to work flawlessly or without contradiction, especially when carried to extreme. Communism is inherently inefficient, requiring ultimately totalitarian direction--extreme capitalism is inherently unequal and exploitative, requiring ultimately insertion of some form of social control. I would claim both kinds of systems, when pushed to the extreme without balancing or regulatory mechanisms, end up being exploitative and harmful of large social systems and ultimately stifling of human development of such systems.

I propose that the spread of e-commerce and of new information managed economies provide us with a third alternative possibility that is neither one extreme nor the other, that permits and promotes healthy competition without necessary monopolization and that allows equitable distribution of resources without unnecessary "Uber" control. I have made the acquaintance with at least one kind of model, that of "Co-opitalism" that is being articulated on the web in at least one forum, though I believe the model being articulated is probably insufficient in scope or organization to the real problem being addressed. I see it as a kind of marriage of opposites, of a framework for network that promotes on one hand cooperative organization, especially encouraging small business development and pioneering entrepreneurship, on one hand, and on the other competitive meta-systemic contexts that might be constructive rather than primarily destructive.

The arguments justifying such an alternative world systems framework have not been sufficiently thought-through or developed as of yet. Neither have the traditional ideologies associated with received structural orientations been fully elaborated or explained. The main point is that we should not remain stuck in the mud with received viewpoints and potentially obsolete symbolic ideologies that limit now our way of thinking about the world and possibilities for doing things in alternative and previously unexplored ways.

The point is that the emergence of Internet based infrastructure may provide a new and unprecedented form for exchange, transmission and distribution affecting the relationships of people to people and of people to resources. It provides new means for social organization and restructuring of human society and systems. Emergent from this process may be the possibility for a new form of economic system previously unrealized in any extensive manner. It would be a kind of economic system that is inherent to the structural possibilities of e-commerce.

Of course, these kinds of systems are not inevitable in the sense that they require human willpower and effort to make them happen. They are emergent and latent in the possibilities provided by the Internet revolution, but there yet remain very serious obstacles to their realization. Achievement of such structures in a unified systems sense will depend upon achieved  worldwide structural integration on a number of levels. It is not likely that political or social integration will happen anytime soon, though economic integration appears to be moving rapidly forward in spite of other differences.

We should now at least be prepared to think about, and as much as possible, plan alternative world systems that might be possible as a consequence of the possibilities afforded by modern and advancing technologies. We should identify in a systematic way the problem sets that would be encountered in the implementation of these alternative frameworks, and the methodologies of implementation that may serve to effectively counter these kinds of problems.