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Musk doesn't strike me as a zealot though.

Is the closest thing we have to that Jared Leto character Elon Musk? In terms of corporate futurist visionary hubris?

In terms of putting names to these claims, I'm not at that point. Still at the hypothesis, here. I need a considerable amount of momentum more before that stage is passed.

Got carried away there. Anyway, I suppose one way to think about this transition is this: If we are currently at the stage where corporations are de facto agenda setters, and politics is increasingly reduced to a formal interfacing with whatever portion of the population thinks they're paying...

And so on

Not sure what the neuroscience is on how social structures and hierarchies are established, but I'd imagine its only a matter of time before we have insight there. Not that we're nearly to the point where we can reengineer ourselves to that extent, but again thats just a matter of time. edit...

Jared Leto's character from Bladerunner 2049 comes to mind, albeit in a jazzed-up and somewhat silly way. Messianic corporate hubris.

Communism here means an operational society despite the lack of a governmental body. Would-be governmental power being diffused among the would-be governed. And as @thirdform has pointed out, free time. Free time, to pursue this or that crusade, vocation, etc. If you could genetically engineer...

But considering how corporate rule, either explicit or implicit, can transition into communism, is interesting. I'd imagine we could see some wild permutations of communism under these circumstances. Could be a communism for the genetically engineered, bending human nature to conform with utopia.

Yeah I'd say if there is some kind of collapse of governmental agency, and its effectively a free for all, then corporations will become the explicit agenda-setters, rather than just the implicit agenda-setters they are now.

The shriveling of policy-backed bureaucratic pretenses, perhaps? Revealing power's tendency toward private nodes? I'd say it would be a sort of extremity of the nation-to-corporation transition. Pockets of private, military-grade power, without any omnipresent policy framework to hold them...

Yeah I already patted myself on the back for that one.

@unboxedjoy reveal yourself! Be gone, ye!

Yeah it'd be a red flag for me too.

What about the best usernames? Many things to factor in, take into account. Conciseness, roll-off-the-tongueness, conceptual interest, etc. @IdleRich and @thirdform come to mind. @sadmanbarty is a good one, as is @Corpsey. Any others from before my time?

Yeah I was tempted to steal it myself.