Social graphs used to be constrained by individual human capacity, roughly parametrized by Dunbar's Number.
Nowadays, a single commodity computer server can store information and relationships for every single living human.
You can have a direct economic relationship with a factory 5,000 miles away. This used to be utterly impossible, and required many degrees of primary human interaction through a chain of relatively small organizations.
Nowadays, a single commodity computer server can store information and relationships for every single living human.
You can have a direct economic relationship with a factory 5,000 miles away. This used to be utterly impossible, and required many degrees of primary human interaction through a chain of relatively small organizations.