Section Three. Paragraph 18. Need-to-Know, Bond

 Section 3 sketches a road-map to a utopian post-capitalist global society, harnessing zero-marginal-cost production, and seeking to avoid the failings of twentieth-century Communism and capitalism. A key reference point is Alexander Bogdanov's 1908 novel Red Star. The section articulates "five principles of transition", all envisaged operating through non-hierarchical social networks:

1. To use massive amounts of real data to understand, model, and test ideas for social change so that they fit observable trends in human behaviour.
2. Ecological sustainability.
3. Ensuring that a transition to post-capitalism is not conceptualised simply in economic terms, but in wider human terms.
4. To address problems with diverse approaches, rather than attempting monolithic solutions.
5. Maximise the power of information.