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Hi-tech civ requires large-scale organisation. Any tech product has a BOM of hundreds or thousands of parts. There are tens of millions of different products. E.g. https://www.rs-online.com/ 500,000 products alone. Getting the right number to the right place is a huge problem.

So far we have two models.
1: central planning. That has many failure modes. The USSR provides a good case study. I can go in to more detail if you are interested.