The dumbest generation

The internet is creating a generation of ignoramuses with tiny attention spans, who will surely become the dumbest generation in history.

Guess the author-No prizes it's Andrew Keen.

Writing in this mornings Indy he reviews "In The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes our Future"

and says that

the Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein demonstrates how the internet is making young people increasingly ignorant about almost everything except online video games and the narcissism of self-authored internet content. He draws a depressingly consistent causal relationship between the rise of digital literacy and the decline of cultural literacy.

Furthermore

The more skilled kids become in using the tools of the digital revolution, he demonstrates, the more ignorant they become about the objective world around them. The informational abundance of the Web 2.0 age, according to Bauerlein, is creating a famine of intelligence. And so the most tangible fruit of the digital revolution is the "dumbest generation",

So is he correct?

Thus, today's skimming generation is becoming more mentally superficial, unable to think in anything beyond the intellectually impoverishing currency of instant messages, emails, and short web posts