it depends on what one has to adapt to.
For an individual yes, but not for a culture. using the analogy of DNA and Sex, what is needed to keep a culture strong, vibrant, and likely to survive any of the future scenarios that you site is variety and combinations.
The variety means that a lot of different activities are tolerated even though they are not enjoyed by all. This is equivalent to the DNA. It is information, tradition, not one tradition but many. It is both Rock music and country music at different venues. Mexican Food, and Chinese, and Italian at different specialty restaurants. It is also programs, TV, and books, including Harry Potter, Touched by an Angel, or Deep Throat. This is available information for future circumstances.
The combinations are society's cultural sex. This is pastrami burritos, Shakespear in Gang Warfare, and visiting preachers. This is where bits of culture are mixed with ideas to create new traditions each year. This is different children learning in the same public school. This is the area where the future of our society is most threatened by the concept that there is strength in apartness, and isolation. Not all combinations are envied and imitated and that is good, but successfull novelty will more likely come from previous success and that is the general "adaptiveness" which can allow a culture to survive.
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