Assume this is correct--i do. 
The question becomes, "Where are the fringes? Where is the new growth happening from below? How can I gauge these reteritorializations?
The question becomes, "Where are the fringes? Where is the new growth happening from below? How can I gauge these reteritorializations?From my vantage point, there is no dearth of innovation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812245
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Who%20is%20hiring&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story
The problem is the bastards have much of this innovation in check, due to the triumvirate (the real Troika) protocols of money, governance, and non-anonymous master-servant (a.k.a. client-server) internet.
It is my strong belief that if we provide the correct decentralized, anonymous protocols for those three, the spark will turn into a fledgling tidal wave hidden under the surface at sea heading towards beach fronts.
The block chain is a central component, but (afaik) everyone has been doing it (slightly but thus catastrophically) wrong.
I would say that governments that keep going to corporations to solve problems: prisons, hospitals, education, ect, are sidestepping and allowing the more efficient link from corporation to consumer (how parasitic is this link would need some benchmark analysis to answer less philosophically, more analytically). How long does this transference last? Can the state survive? Was the idea of a physical border (the physical state) keeping us safe(r) demolished on 9/11?
The State as a parasite can only survive in the NWO, one-world system which is a 666 red blood sucking eugenics. In my mind, the key essence point to make is that the existing system can not transition seamlessly (gradually or smoothly) to a new decentralized Knowledge Age system, because the State system is inherently centralized. Centralized systems can't slowly become decentralized. They are eaten from below until they collapse and that collapse can be very messy (deadly).