This book focuses on the inherent contradiction between bureaucracy, hierarchy, and the vision inspired by the architecture of
modern information technology of a more egalitarian culture in public organizations. We agree with Evans and Wurster and
others who have argued that, in the future, knowledge-based productive relationships will be designed around fluid, teambased
collaborative communities, either within organizations (i.e., deconstructed value chains), or in collaborative alliances
such as those with "amorphous and permeable corporate boundaries characteristic of companies in the Silicon Valley" that is,
deconstructed supply chains. In such relationships everyone can communicate richly with everyone else on the basis of shared
standards and, like the Internet itself, these relationships will eliminate the need to channel information, thereby eliminating
the trade-off between information bandwidth and connectivity. "The possibility (or the threat) of random access and information
symmetry," they conclude, "will destroy all hierarchies, whether of logic or power"