As a characteristic of current directions of social progress, authorityopposing trends of modernism and post-modernism find significant support in new technology including crypto-currencies, blockchain, social media, search engines, massive open online courses, and other products of the Internet era, many of these earning their clout partly through a largely accepted assumption that their decentralization components leads to less falsifiable outcomes.

The calls to coherently address global challenges like pandemics, travel hiatuses, and economic meltdowns, without resorting to authoritarian centralized solutions that excessively restrict individual freedoms and thereby further contract the world economy, put a new focus on the sophistication in expectations and aspirations of society. In this context, an increase in digital skills brought by intensive use of online education prepares the potential for the advent and adoption of major innovations.

The organization of societies, like architecture, is an art. Whether actually older or not, the origins of the concept of democracy pass through its most famous and universally appreciated instance known as Athenian democracy, as recounted by Herodotus (Herodotus 2003; Narcisse 2012). He described a system of organization allegedly designed by a ruler called Cleisthenes and practiced in Athens between 507 and 460 bc. The system is based on the sovereign body of all available constituents, named the ekklesia (the assembly), deliberating and issuing laws through a simple majority of people attending their almost weekly meetings. These took place on the Pnyx, a hill in the western part of the city.