> But what if instead of looking at the number of users, we looked at the efficacy of users on a social network? We can then see how the productive power of a s

> But what if instead of looking at the number of users, we looked at the efficacy of users on a social network? We can then see how the productive power of a social network can indeed increase combinatorially, and to our great benefit. I don't think this is "combinatorial growth" either? The number of possible networks is the same as the number of possible subgraphs, so should scale as 2^2n.