Failure
of linear growth and development to sustain the economy 
Three Determinants
The Theory
Failure
of linear growth and development to sustain the economy
The causes of our cultural turmoil are not poor schools, drug abuse, political corruption, and international terrorists. These are all but symptoms. Underlying all these surface problems, there are three fundamental determinants of the Progress Paradox.
Information
/ Data Overload 
Technological Determinism
We simply have run out of resources needed to support an ever-expanding economic base. We no longer have the resources or the space to expand forever--and we don't know how to plan for the future.
The more data we generate, the more difficult it is to compile them into structured information. And the more information we have, the smaller is the percentage that we are able to conceptualize and turn into personal knowledge.
These three phenomena are the underlying determinants of all our cultural woes--the factors that have propelled us into our post-intellectual era.
McLuhan wrote of Technological Determinism. Neil Postman defined it as Technopoly.
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