I'm not as pessimistic as Douglas Rushkoff though I would certainly agree there is cause for concern. "When I search my heart, I look at the problem as being that we never recognized the awesome power of corporate capitalism... The underlying operating system of the world is capitalism, which is how we extract time and resources from people and places and convert it to capital. When you decide to energize capitalism with digital devices, you amplify its power." That's when wealth extraction, rather than human well-being, becomes the dominant activity of society, and when therefore society begins to fail. I think we can put the brakes on this, though some countries may have already traveled too far down this path to recover.
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