Perhaps any given society is defined by some operator on what it can do/does with information. I guess we can call this, in this case, an information utilizatio

Perhaps any given society is defined by some operator on what it can do/does with information. I guess we can call this, in this case, an information utilization energy, E, and if we could some how define "can do/does with information" as Hamiltonian, SH, in nature and governed by some set of initial conditions, IC, (which will vary depending on the society), then I suppose every society has a ground state that could be calculated approximated (via the ritz method) from such: E0 <= (<IC|SH|IC>)/(<IC|IC>), and it could be proven that some societies have a higher or lower ground state as far is it comes to utilization of information. However at the point we are, I wouldn't be surprised if on normalized spectrum of information utilization ground states across societies from 0 to 100 were all clustered together near 0. I know, pessimistic :P