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"Metasystems occur as a step function separating two qualitatively different levels of organization that can be approximately measured as a sigmoid (S-shaped) curve(Modis, 2012) (i.e. as quantity of interconnections increases, a new qualitative organization must emerge to maintain a new level of complexity). Therefore the metasystem represents a punctuated equilibrium-like process characterized by an accelerated period of subsystem integration, before stabilizing into a new level of organization (Heylighen, 2007, 2015a). In the human system, metasystems have generally stabilized within three different levels of complex organization: hunting, agricultural, industrial (Niele, 2005), and within three different broadly defined forms of control hierarchies: band/tribes, chiefdoms/kingdoms, nation-states (see: Last, 2015).The next system is likely to be constructed utilizing solar power (and a diverse mixture of other renewables, e.g., geothermal, wind, etc.) with a more distributed control organization that transcends contemporary nation-states (i.e. self-organized)."