The emergence of direct instantaneous connections, and above all the fact that intellectual value is 'non-rivalrous' - so if I give you an idea or knowledge I cannot then exclude you from it or take it back - has now reached such a tipping point. The tectonic plates have shifted sufficiently for Society 3.0 to erupt. Current shocks and tremors include the Scottish and Brexit independence votes; the final collapse of representative Democracy in the UK and in the US, and so on.

In my view, where this leads is a new polity based upon the sovereignty of the individual, since as HG Wells said the only thing more powerful than the Will to Power (over others) is the Will to Freedom.

Sovereignty of the individual is all well and good, but these individual freedoms clearly come with responsibilities, and it is here - in the institutions and instruments which link consenting adults to a common purpose - that I believe we will see - indeed we are seeing - new bottom up movements, typically issue-based.

I think we will also see a new reality-based political economy, which in my analysis - my own perspective of Reality, if you like - will be based upon the sources of value or factors of production of Location (3D Space); Energy (material and immaterial) and Intellect (subjective qualified Labour and objective IP).

My work in relation to Resilience is at both macro/international level and also - on the principle that networking resilient micro leads to resilient macro - at micro/community level.

While I believe in Independence I do not believe in Nation States as we know them, still less a Supra Nation State such as that which the EU now approaches. I identify as a European and a Briton by birth; but as a Scot and Linlithgovian by choice. I advocate functional European Unions (such as a European Energy Clearing Union) but definitely not the baroque - and on the odd subject, occasionally monstrous - organisational Rat's Nest into which the European Union has evolved.

I believe (in my Utopian way) that in an emergent Reality-based future individuals will act collaboratively to a common purpose to mobilise resources using simple consensual risk and production sharing agreements and instruments which have been long forgotten, but which pre-date modern finance capital.

Why would people do this? For the rational economic reason that a smaller percentage of something is preferable to 100% of nothing. No doubt ET cynics will be quick to point out the number of sociopaths for whom power, not economic gain, is the sole aim. To the extent that is true, my view is that the reins of power held by such people are ever more tenuously attached.

We are seeing, in my analysis, a transition from the failed intermediated 'for profit' (Private) or 'for power' (Public) Market 2.0 commodity transaction  paradigm to a disintermediated Market 3.0 service provider relationship paradigm. The reason why this may be observed emerging in practice is simply that finance capital is being replaced by intellectual capital.

So those businesses who do not adopt the service provider model will be unable to compete with the Smart businesses who do. A new era of cost-cutting which is now opening up is that of the cost of economic rent (aka the true something for nothing), extracted hitherto by rentier investors or by managerialism.

Returning to Politics, Independence is not per se a Policy but is rather the way in which Policy is made and implemented. I think we will see, rather than Political Independence by Nation States, a new approach to functional policy independence as Nation States become obsolescent. This could lead to Energy Independence policy initiatives (such as my Linlithgow Natural Grid); Housing Independence (agreements & instruments to mobilise land use, resources and people); Food Independence, etc etc.

As I like to say, West Lothian Questions have West Lothian Answers.

So finally, back to Labour: I think the Labour Party is as obsolete as every other Party in representative Democracies. In the future, the Party will no longer make the Policy, according to ideology: the Policy will make the Party/Movement.