As the speed of light is to the physical universe, so is co-ordination to human societies.
It's a scientific analogy that illustrates a sociological problem. Which itself is only part of a thread that traces trust to the natural chaos of the universe.
Trust is the foundation of co-ordination, which is a means to problem-solving.
Problem-solving is a natural necessity of human societies in the face of a fundamentally chaotic nature. Problem-solving is what allows for progress and development. Progress and development are not independently-existing entities. They only exist against natural chaos.
Nature is fundamentally chaotic. Patterns that arise out of it are not proof of an absence of chaos, but of the inevitability of patterns given a large enough scale of randomness.