The natural process of creative destruction deterritorializes everything, that's how every advance in history has always came about. The apparent difference perceived here is merely that this time, the human capital in the institutions that's supposed to reinvent the institutions alongside each new development are struggling.

Coincidentally, this has happened exactly when the Flynn effect reverted, the loneliness epidemic worsened, the academics started getting outnumbered by the deans and deanlings and the average EROI of new coal, oil and gas extraction projects fell below 10:1. Sure, we should be wary of the loss to analysis if we just reduce everything to an omnicause blob, but the human capital decline wouldn't be there without it.