The causes of the social syndrome shaking the very foundations of the human ecosystem are as follows: first, strong interrelationships between the various phenomena surrounding pollution, the environment, resources, and energy; second, the process of rapid economic growth, large-scale plants with extensive production equipment and advanced technologies were set up in the heavy and chemical industries; third, the pursuit of profit margins neglecting the development of technologies to render harmless the environmental pollutants; fourth, seriously distorts the cyclical structure of the ecosystem.

Remarkable progress is being made in the field of biotechnology demonstrated in the areas of genetic engineering and cell fusion.  Progress in robotics accompanied advances in computer science. In many universities, technology enabled active learning environment advanced as a teaching format that merges lectures, simulations and hands-on desktop experiments to create a rich collaborative learning experience.  This 21^st century blended learning model enabled the emergence of a true synchronous/asynchronous and virtual/physical matrix of learning opportunities.  Blended learning matrix combining face-to-face physical and online learning, virtual and physical on-line learning, time dependent and time independent.  The vortex is on the 3^rd space which supports social forms of student interaction.  Students can now learn off campus on line.  Learning technologies exemplifies that acoustics, furniture, lighting (both natural and artificial), mobility, flexibility, air temperature and security must support the educational technologies being designed by those spaces.

In spite of this hopeful prospects, however, not all is well with the ongoing post-modernization throughout the globe.  Technology as tool of economic development not only enables the liberal values found in every society to thrive and advance but also erodes the personal, spiritual and moral milieu of postmodernity project by subjecting individuals to consumerism thus producing mindless citizens.  Fueled by technological innovations, unnecessary needs are conjured by mass media, and society is seduced into all devouring consumerism accompanied by a bland acceptance of the status quo.

KEYWORDS: social syndrome, biotechnology, Dostoevsky, educational technologies