From the Information Age to the Recommendation Age

Whitehead and Richerson, The evolution of conformist social learning can cause population collapse in realistically variable environments, Evolution and Human Behavior 30 (2009) 261-273. http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Richerson/RedNoise.pdf

A lack of independent decision making seems to put the society at risk. The Recommendation Age (crowd sourcing opinions and decisions) may not be a good choice for long term survival.