In her 2017 Future Frontiers debut, Toni Lane Casserly walks us through the biology of honeybees and spiders so we can better see what’s possible in human social organization.

From webs of extraction to hives of cooperation, is humanity ready to be rid of old hierarchies? To embrace interdependency?

Casserly argues we are only just beginning to develop the technologies for superior collective intelligence, but when we complete this innovation cycle we may very well see the end of old mediating structures, such as the violent nation state and the extractive corporation.