I overview data on several radical societal changes started circa 2015: accelerated decline in fertility rate, backsliding of democracy, rise of populist politics and arrest in generational renewal of political leadership. I conjecture that all these processes have a common underlying cause: the spread of cheap and easy access to information due to wide spread of smartphones. I speculate about possible mechanisms connecting the observed changes with this underlying information revolution and discuss relevant historical parallels.
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Mikhail V. Tamm (Mon,) studied this question.
synapsesocial.com/papers/68d90a0f41e1c178a14f6a19 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2503.07773
Mikhail V. Tamm
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