Questions of political/spiritual “progress” are independently foundational. They are coupled to material/economic progress narratives (in fact they supply whatever assumed positive or negative valence the former takes on) and can be driven by tech. But they are not derivative.
Seems plausible. You could create a medium-message matrix and find the natural grain of a particular stage of societal development. For example Benedict Anderson argued in Imagined Communities that national narratives as a coordination mechanism were an effect of print.
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Otoh, there are general features of coordination problems that are technology agnostic and rest on the mathematical-logical features. David Lewis’ Classic, Convention is a study of that. Convention in his sense is orthogonal to coordination style in your sense.
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The “technology” and the coordination mechanism it enables, and problems it solves, may not have a clean logical description as in your list though. A challenge you might want to consider is analyzing Geertz’s Balinese cockfight essay as a case study in weird coordination.
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