For the society is facing not only a new age of information, but also a new technological era which brings with it a challenge to all of the historical religions, and which can lead either to humankind «s next integrative steps toward new religious insights and meaning, or to a collapse of religious development and the emergence of a period of anarchy and despair. (religion-online.org)
But the center - out model is much more supportive of the needs of the industrial revolution, the rise of major nation - states and the demands of the new technological era. (religion-online.org)
Unfortunately, thus far the new technological era has created a world of means in which the meaning of human existence is lost. (religion-online.org)