Knowledge,communication and encryption.We live in an age where teenagers can create nuclear reactors in basements(lol),pull off zero-day hacks(for fun),3d print a gun and the availability of the anarchist cookbooks.Let's not even speak of the dark web.
Politics as we know it is dying.Your money no good here
Now governments are left with two options,try to control and monitor information or not.But human nature tells us that there will always be individuals who seek power and are willing to disregard the lives of others to attain it.But then again governments are tempted to become the very evil they wish to vanquish.Disregarding the ones in government who aim to attain that very money and power,prudence would dictate taking precautions on both internal and external threats.
Now let's play chess and focus on the pawn,the youth.Youth have an aversion to authority and are getting used to if not already addicted to the free web.Now circus and bread won't work since governments are moving on the web,essentially cutting the 'supply'.But then again youth pick up knowledge like a sponge and what is considered spectacular to the former generation is second nature to them.
Combining open source movements,current unemployment and sheer numbers,one of the biggest bubble in the black market which will eventually become mainstream is 3d printing specs where individuals can print products like phones,processors,routers and their derivatives just to get off the grid.
Obviously governments will brand this as the works of terrorists and anyone who undermines the government is technically a terrorist.Oh the philosophy of democracy.
It boils down to recycling technologies,advanced materials,independent sustainable energy technologies and communication.Most of the things we want to do rely on two things: resources and communication.Resources to facilitate our objectives/actions and communication because no man is an island especially in this ever connected world.