Old Time Religion... 02

Currently, there is a much increased, and growing, fear of loss of present status, as so many fail to understand the revolution being caused by modern technology. Sadly, there is ridiculously high level of ignorance even concerning evolution, never mind revolution!
In my view, for the present appallingly low level of understanding throughout the world, the world's so-called educators, the "intellectual elite", must face up to failure on it's part, over the past 40 years.
What can the reasons be for the backward-slide, plain greed, fear, or just plain stupidity?
It is so easy to recognise that the controlling norms, values, thinking in today's world are rooted in the economic/political needs of the industrialied age, and are imbued with social-control applications acceptable during the Dark Ages and colonial times.
But their inadequacy in today's world has been demonstrated by many failures in the past 100 years. Probably the easiest, recent, example to use is the mp3 revolution. As hinted at in "Power Shift" by Alvin Toffler, more than 10 years ago,access to the
Internet, world-wide, might shake the foundations of many persons and even professions!
No national administration in the world can have the same smug sense of certainty that was customary only 20 years ago!
Just as bloggers have caused ripples within the so-called news media, they may soon be questioning the wisdom of reactionary attempts to preserve as "sacred cows" such concepts as "Capitalism" which even today has many of the world's better educated younger generation enslaved in the service of capital.
Should capital not be used in the service of humanity?