Tribes, Institutions, Markets & Networks

Harold Jarche posted this video and intrigued I watched it. 

The video is about TIMN:

T = Tribes (clans, kinship groups, monoform, oral age)

I = Institutions (hierarchical, bi-form, print age)

M = Markets (competitive, trading, banking, companies, tri-form, electrical age)

N = Networks (civil society, quadri-form, digital information revolution)

There were a couple of things that grabbed my attention:

Sees society moving from Rights toward thinking more about Responsibilities

The rise of the Third Sector (non-profits, community groups and organisations). The left are focusing on commons - physical and knowledge/information. The right thinkers are talking about stewardship but haven't linked it to networks yet. 

TIMNs is an exercise in futurology to archaeology.

Two final points:

1. nowhere near end of history as thought by companies in tri-form period.

2. looking at mathematics of social evolution 

Interested in your thoughts on this ...