Your work describing networks is also work discovering networks, wherein we make decisions, thus democracy.
http://www.networkweaving.com/
Certainly we will see progress as interaction is enhanced. Effect. Studies in group process seem to show that raw interaction is often all that change & benefit require.
Didn’t Plato warn that city states should be constrained to about 5,000 people? If larger, he thought the human eye could not visualize each adjacent citizen as an individual. Thus not ‘seeing’ his neighbor, he could not sensibly accomodate his neighbor. I’ve often thought democracy, any government, fails after a certain scale. It’s somewhat absurd to ask a smidgeon of leadership to steer this boat.
Finally, again admiring your ingenious and diligent effort,
Network from matrix
And matrix from node,
to coin a modern ode,