Bateman says, “Substantial human communities may be organized acephalously—without central authority”[i] and “There need not be a single locus of authority—not in the family, not in society, not in the cosmos.  It is not easy to maintain a sense of commonality based on partial and ambiguous sharing, but that may be the only option for world order.”[ii]  Reardon adds, “The invention of the state provided a solution to a problem that has not disappeared: the problem of coordinating large populations lacking dense links of intercommunication. ... Today, the increase of communication offers an alternative solution to the same problem.”[iii]