The US Intelligence community has predicted the diffusion of power over the next decade, that is; authority and control will be distributed among a more diverse set of entities, with no single state wielding supreme power. If we understand this prediction accurately, what they are talking about are multinational corporations and financial institutions, not states. And if we understand THIS accurately, we are actually talking about a greater concentration of power in fewer and fewer hands (the shareholder class) wielded through strictly totalitarian institutions with no democratic mechanisms whatsoever.
In other words, the future of democracy depends on the democratisation of corporate power. That is the next phase. That is the new revolution.