The recalcitrance for making networks and organizations in general more efficient is high. A vast amount of effort is going into overcoming this recalcitrance, and the result is an annual improvement of humanity's total capacity by perhaps no more than a couple of percent.

This is the first time we have close to a quantitative estimate for recalcitrance: a couple of percent a year for something as big as human society, and 'a vast amount' of effort. Do you think this recalcitrance is high relative to that of other systems under consideration? Also, what efforts do you think count as 'overcoming this recalcitrance'?