Corporations are reigned in by civic regulations, although they increase in size - there's the Fortune Global 5,000. Conglomerates fund most of the UN-type activities. Consumerland is the quadrant where individual desires meet a social and corporate center. It is a future in which everyone is the ultimate consumer, possessed of almost infinite choices. The Net is again a ubiquitous medium - but a medium through which corporations deliver marketing messages tailored directly to your unique preferences, via personal catalogs, personalized ads and coupons, and the like.
Social organizations proliferate but it is clear that they serve individual yearnings.
The citizen becomes a consumer - served by society. It is the future where the center holds. Government plays a large role in supporting the commonwealth, but more important than government is the emergence of widely shared ecological values. These are not coercive values but a voluntary embrace of cohesion, cooperation, and reduced consumption, backed by legislation and even corporate policies. New Civics is a future in which values are shared but in many small, competing groups.