I'm nearing the end of my reading of Anathem, a work of speculative fiction which includes many invented words and concepts, I find 2 particularly relevant to our own society. As language influences culture, perhaps through adopting these we can over time become a society which better-appreciates our great thinkers while maintaining more horizontal governance:
Saunt: honorary title bestowed posthumously on great thinkers - a contraction of "savant".
In my opinion we could do much more to honor our truly great thinkers - current institutions include the "Dr." title and the Nobel prize, but both pale in comparison even to political titles like President or Senator. Saunt evokes Saint, and is IMO an appropriate and meaningful title for those who push us forward intellectually. Saunt Jobs, anyone?
First Among Equals, FAE: title identifying the principle representative of a non-hierarchical group
In institutions which have representatives ostensibly equal to those they represent, there is a danger over time of the representatives becoming entrenched in their representation and attendant power, and eventually taking on de facto nobility, which is only assisted by the honorific titles they hold. By explicitly including an assertion of equality in the title, one can perhaps undermine this tendency.