I believe that this suggestion by Nick may be the critical work of philosophy for the foreseeable future. It is reasoned and rational and has served mankind well for hundreds if not thousands of years. Perhaps even the definition of reasonable and rational.
Philosophy is the bleeding edge of social change.
I hope I'm not wandering too far. I don't really have any good ideas about what this alternative underlying structure might look like. The computer network seems an obvious pattern, but I suspect that it reduces to hierarchical structure.