Contexts hold some of reasons for world dysfunctional behaviors. It takes our solar system 24 to 26K to orbit the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. In that orbital cycle there is a time when our Solar System is closer to the light and conversely farther from the light. The Hindu Yugas map such a cycle. We are in the final years of the Ascending Kali Yuga - or the darkest of times.

Within cycles of history the seeds of the new era (of more light) take shape in the darkness. Astronomically we are emerging from the dark into the light. The inner technologies are less visible the other ones you cite in your story. And they are emerging as well.