Initiatives such as those undertaken by Virgin and OneWeb, Google’s Project Loon, and Facebook’s Connectivity Lab, will improve access to the word’s best information, learning and collaboration tools for billions more people, whereupon they discover how to create and supply next-generation products and services our planet’s inhabitants need and want.

Together with the rise of open product and service provision platforms, this will drive an explosion in participation in the global economy, underpinning the next great source of global growth.

With vastly improved access to open assets of real value, innovation and entrepreneurialism will flourish and the cost to deliver high quality outcomes will be reduced. Productivity will improve, and new industries will evolve to offset the impacts of artificial intelligence and robotics.

This will foster broad increases in wealth, enabling so many more to be effective providers to their families and others, improving standards of living and health, sparking optimism and aspiration, and extending needs into wants with feasible means of fulfillment.

Thus feeding this great new cycle of growth by dramatically increasing the size of addressable markets, while significantly improving the prospects of industry incumbents willing to embark on this open journey.

Governments will provide more of higher quality to their citizens – in particular those in need – at lower total cost. Greater connectivity, collaboration, cooperation and learning the world over means a better understanding of one another, the world we live in, and the impacts of our actions.

Everybody now can, in fact, win. This is how.

Autonomous, extra-national systems that are entirely dependable, governable and unmanipulable will commoditize trust, and make all of this possible. We believe the world and humanity is desperately in need of this paradigm shift, and that our role in contributing to it is the most important thing we can do in this life.

Wholly proprietary, closed, monopolistic systems cannot win in this future. This paradigm shift’s tipping point is near. You will need to think differently, but you can, and in fact must. Join us, let’s co-own the journey and direct this future, making it the right one – and a very prosperous one – for us all.