The decision-making processes are shifting from a few people at the top to many people in the company and outward, even to customers. Rather than work against the power that's shifting things to the edges, embrace the swarm. We still need leadership and some top- down control. We still need regulation of a certain kind. But let as much power as possible go to the bottom, to let lots of autonomous decentralized units create things for us.
Networks behave more like biology than machines.
Lily pads double in size every day. Unstopped, they one day cover the entire pond, although just the day before they were only halfway there. The Network Economy is a lily pond. The Web, as one example, is a leaf doubling in size every six months. What's interesting about an ecology is that every successful species that comes along creates room for other species to develop.