There is a war between hierarchies and networks.

Tech elites are offering an alternative way to structure society.

In his book The Network State: How to Start a New Country, Srinivasan boldly advocates that people physically move to geographic areas, i.e., network states that hold their values, so that they don't have the “burden of having to vote every four years.” 

The nascent network states would be initially formed online with like-minded people and then grow to inhabit the physical world; the idea is to go from online to aligned (pronounced ah-lined).