there is a theory of value called "capital as power" they collected some "statistics" to support the claim that technology shifts lead to shifts in power structure, specifically: different modes of energy consumption fundamentally altered the power structure. they show the tie between technology shift, modes of energy consumption and differential accumulation through mergers and acquisitions.

in one decade people will see the shift from paper based "literate" industrial society to computerized "post literate" growing in speed around the time we are in now.

we still use the paper based "literate" state as an arbitration tool but it is too slow

in a time where the structure that is on the other side of energy consumption (it used to be industry, steel, machinery, ... ) is not physical,

the speed in which terms have to be settled has to be much faster

centralized systems have too much inertia to adapt