There are many historians that would agree with this. Technology availability and adoption is definitely an input into the equation determining the types of soc

There are many historians that would agree with this. Technology availability and adoption is definitely an input into the equation determining the types of social organization that are possible. One accessible example is that Federal power in the US really took off post-Civil War. Part of this story is that the war had greatly expanded the size and power of the Federal government, as well as weakening the old slaveocracy, but another is that centralized control of a territory as vast as the US basically requires telegraphs and railroads. Even if there were a political appetite for centralization in 1810s America, it just wasn't possible except where existing lines of communication were already adequate (coastal cities and those on major navigable waterways or canals).