there is a certain information overload going on, there is so much now that one need not focus on a set source, simply browse to where their interest peaks.
while this is a good way to keep people up to date, it will never present an in depth look into events, causes and effects and so on. kids seem to lack the core focus to do things completely end to end these days.
while I doubt we'll reach a point of Idiocracy, I think we will start to see the upper middle class pull farther away from the lower class and the upper class will continue to grow, we're in a sense creating a largely under-motivated and under-instructed set of generations to come.
i guess the internet and tv really are sheep herders though. but that's good, the sheep are the ones that turn the wheels, work the mundane jobs, pay their taxes and follow the rules, which brings order
