This seems very juvenile. Humans run the Net, humans live in hierarchies. It is purely sophmoric to believe that programmers are above human desire because they are programmers. For example, who owns the clouds? Bam, instant hierarchy. Who runs the software companies? Who invests in them? Who holds their debt? Who writes and enforces Net laws? And what about NSA & Co.?
As a closed study of a certain number of levels of system interaction, okay. But the heterarchy concept depends on neutral boundaries - and no boundary is neutral. And to then go so far as to declare that the boundaries don’t even exist is fantasy.
Till now we have, because we've existed in a universe where (almost) all goods were scarce.
Heterarchies may very well, however, be the future in many ways.
Which is as difficult for us to comprehend as the sphere was for the pologons of Flatland.
But keep right on denouncing those who even try to think through the implications. If you do so successfully, the disruptive heterarchies will never get here.