The core issue with governance that arises regardless of paradigm, in my opinion, is over-centralization.

Now it seems that we have technology behemoths superceding government and centralizing control of our economies.

I like to call them "technopolies". They are successful largely because they are so all-encompassing over particular areas. The problem is that they are private profit driven entities and so the playing field, though large, is not fair, and core functions lack competition.

Eventually all-encompassing decentralized public technology platforms should be able to supercede the technopolies. This way we can have systems that operate holistically in a way with majority networks but without the private centralization of control.

That is not to say that it is going to be easy. But it's the only viable paradigm that could replace the Iron Cage.