"... must be willing to revisit how the physical world is governed". Yes, indeed, how is the physical world to be governed? I'm down with the atoms; there's a reality that the 1's and 0's don't quite get. We are where we are, and eventually the intersecting where's end up with where we actually are - home, work, church, group, tribe, country. That's the governance & culture element. Maybe the bits will work that out, but I'd rather go with a messy, fractious, imperfect, but earnest democracy than anything that's been proposed as an alternative.