Throughout history, philosophers have meditated on the end of the human race beyond mere apocalyptic terms of explosions, wars, or aliens, but rather a slow societal and cultural decay that permeates humans ability to think, create, or criticize. These degenerative scenarios have taken us from the brutish and short life of man before the social contract described by Hobbes in Leviathan, to the stuffed and vapid existence of T.S. EliotÕs Hollow Men, to the bland, obese, digital lifestyle depicted in DisneyÕs WALL-E. These cultural decompositions produce fascinating landscapes, however distant they seem in possibility. All of this begs the question: are the theories and warning signs behind this kind of degeneration - the devolution of mankind - all too real in todayÕs placeless and increasingly digital culture?