In a paper I wrote that was just accepted by the World Future Review I discuss my vision for the future of our political system in depth (I'll upload to hubski when it's been published - due to nature of the academic journal article process this is an inherently lengthy process). I do speculate about how the transition will happen but I don't pretend to know with a high degree of certainty. I am just sure that the transition will occur if socio-technological evolution holds. The big question is this: Will it be violent or not? Will it be gradual or not? Basically, will it be like the French and American Revolutions? (i.e. violent and relatively abrupt). There is really no way to know because it depends on too many social factors and players. A number of things could happen, which I know is not very helpful. The only guarantee is that socio-technological evolution is on our side, and not the industrial systems side, so however it occurs, we will win.

won't this invasion of privacy make it difficult for people to coordinate efforts?

Industrial political systems can temporarily abuse their power - in the process temporarily halting progress - but they cannot control the Internet or our collective action in its entirety. Dictatorships learned this throughout the Middle East and North Africa over the past few years. You can't stop all of us. The Internet is too decentralized and robust. More importantly, the Internet allows our actual collective opinion to emerge, which shifts the entire culture faster than most of us anticipate. We have already seen more of a popular opinion shift against spying and centralized organization in 2013 than probably the entirety of human history before 2013. This is only going to grow the more we become aware that our current information infrastructure does not align with our current political infrastructure.

One of the most important things to discuss moving forward is the fact that our institutions are not embedded in the laws of physics. They have a beginning. And they will have an end. That beginning and that end are dependent on evolutionary functions. We can explain their emergence. And we can explain their collapse. Their existence is currently on shaky grounds.