Passage Summary: In the future, being a wealthy nation requires high-tech electronics. These gadgets show people how the rest of the world lives, which makes them doubt their own traditions until those traditions eventually fade away.

Conclusion: A nation's cultural stability will likely decrease if that nation achieves great economic prosperity in the new century.

Reasoning: Economic prosperity requires advanced technology, which exposes citizens to foreign lifestyles, causing them to question and eventually abandon their own traditions.

Analysis: This stimulus sets up a clear causal chain: Prosperity requires Technology, Technology leads to Exposure, Exposure leads to Questioning, and Questioning leads to Dissolution. To complete the argument, we simply need to connect the starting point (prosperity/technology) to the endpoint (cultural instability). It seems that in this commentator's world, you can have a fat wallet or a firm cultural identity, but you probably can't have both. Look for an answer that reflects this trade-off between economic success and cultural preservation.