The development of a neo-Schumpeterian world economy, combined with the power structures prevalent in the digital ecosphere, is rapidly leading to the rise of a single history with a strong preference of western practices, semiotics, languages, currencies, and traditions.

The digital revolution is dramatically impacting the development of globalized culture and the interactions within it. The amount of digitalized information affects systems of communication around the world. As a society, we humans continuously choose to wiggle between preserving and thoughtlessly discard what defines us as a species.

At the hand of the spread of Western capitalism and intense levels of corruption, the Eastern Bloc is watching its landscape shift west both ideologically and aesthetically in order to fit the mold of what it is to be a European nation. The European Union uses the statement "united in diversity" yet clearly prioritizes the preservation of western culture over those of the eastern bloc in its physical and digital ecosphere. Non-western cultures could face a similar fate to the extinction of several cultures with the invention of the printing press in the 1400s if their preservation is not extended into the digital ecosphere. As this mythology of Western superiority disseminates into the psyche of the East, its motherland suffers.

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