ABSTRACT
Bureaucracies have been the organisational forms used by mechanised industrialised societies with associated management styles and regulations. Networks and matrices will be the organisational forms used by networked societies with management styles that either maximise fluidity at the expense of democracy or use fluidity to enhance creativity. Logically ethical practice will increase, as the value of systemic, cooperative thinking becomes apparent to all. The use of computers has enabled creative thinkers to delegate the basic categorisation of knowledge to computers that work on basic binary oppositional logic. It is now possible to use the information in a multiplicity of ways in order to solve problems. This frees problem-solvers from thinking in terms of narrow categories and hierarchies or even in terms of one meta-theory. Information literacy is no longer restricted to a few categories, but is opened to follow weblike routes through data to create specific contextual responses to diversity. Exceptions to the bureaucratic rule become increasingly possible and the ontological responsibil-ity to tap this diversitywhilst preserving the one truth, namely our sharedness in terms of biology and ecology becomes an ethical imperative.
