Taking John Naughton's view that that the really important thing about the internet is that it was built with a few small principles in mind, which has allowed it to be a global surprise-generation scheme, you can do a very old thought experiment and wonder "What does this idea from technology reveal about about society". So the question is what would an open social architecture look like - a set of ground of boundary conditions or starting points embedded in social relationships that provide a global surprise-generation scheme. A follow-up is how is such an architecture generated.
Network science can help - we have some ideas now of how networks grow, some basic ideas about the link between conditions and emergence. What does this look like in terms of social relationships (mixes of strong and weak ties). etc. etc. Back to technology what sort of technologies can support this?
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