It is a world in which the new establishment, starved of vibrant debate and argument, is in danger of stagnating in its own smugness. Increasingly hard to know how reliable information is. Information technologies combine with other new technologies to sweep away existing institutions. Individual access to ever more global information. Individuals go to trusted sources who are responsible for checking information.
New technologies assist re-vamped major institutions in achieving their objectives.
New power structures in politics, in business and in community life Transient networks and shifting partnerships. Weakening of national government Radically modernised, but stable, organisations National government remains the focus of politics. The growing importance of new relationships to the living environment Environmental policy is decided at global and European levels and implemented locally. The Green movement draws upon a wide variety of many short-term groups. Environmental policy is decided nationally and implemented through stable national organisations.