Harold - thanks for the link on T+I+M+N societies. I will study up! I still think the market approach (or perhaps more accurately the evolutionary approach) has a lot of life and potential left in it to deal with complexity as it has long been nature's way of dealing with it (thinking here for example of evolutionary biology), despite its limitations and the long timeframes involved. I wonder if one of the reasons people have a difficulty with markets is because of the lack of a conscious "intelligence" guiding or influencing their direction - as well as the fact that while often producing good results they can often produce spectacularly bad ones (something that probably applies to all of these models).

I agree however that networked societies are an important development whose potential is not yet fully exploited or understood - and wondering a lot on how this affects the work I'm doing working in a large "institution" (the UN) focussing on mainly on "co-ordination".