The phrase, 'moving towards meaningless' is pointless, and I can't imagine how you would articulate the meaning of earlier generations. To give life a meaning, you pretty much have to presuppose the existence of some external creator that apply its understanding of life's meaning onto us.
Otherwise we can only forge meaning from our own context, and any 'meaning' we alight on would be just as arbitrary and pointless as any other.
Regarding the information age, I'd say the availability of information is placing less importance on the amassing of information and more on the ability to shift through the multitude of sources and come up with a decent analysis of the matter.
Not that that wasn't always an important skill, but that seems to be the direction society is heading in.
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