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Civilizational Sense Making and the Scaling Threshold
Civilizations in historical data tend to reach a point where they become overwhelmed by the information environment they created. Researchers suggest that civilizations that disappeared may have failed to invent new ways to make sense together. The internet has greatly increased the complexity of our information environment, but we have not yet adapted to it.