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What changes when you consider governance for the next 1000 years

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Governance is not new but when the thinking emerged that we needed oversight the world was less complicated.  It is not that we can wind back time. We know that new governance will be built on the best aspects of everything we have thought and created so far.  Whilst we will take the foundations of the original thinking and by adding in learning and wisdom of where we have got to, we acknowledge that this is not going to be enough to get to governance to be fit for the next 1000 years. But the question remains, how will governance going forward be different? We know instinctively it will be and there are three principal reasons why, which are to be unpacked later. However, we must build on the original ideas of governance that were about finding the north star and purpose.  We must keep a core requirement that a Directors role is to question if the North Star is still the place to be heading towards.  We must build on the thinking that we must continually steer a course to the north s