Are people getting dumber?

I remember when I was a kid. if we didn't know something, we were encouraged to learn the answer. not be told, to learn. we had a few diffrent options, depending on what the questionh was. one was to goto the libarary and look it up. then, possibly we would be allowed to use experiments to "prove" the facts. much to my regret (and the relief of bomb squads everywhere), My experimentation with explosives was limited by my parents.

the other choice, was to skip the libarary, and go straight to proving a theroy. not always right, but it also taught me to avoid future mistake in other theroys using logic.

then I discovered computers. I still have fond memories of that vic 20. as a young teen, I discovered modems, along with several good freind. as one commented a few months back, when I got online, you needed to have at leasyt a basic knowledge of programing. you had to know how to (at least) manipulate a script to connect.

now? all you need is a finger to click the mouse.

Today, no one experiments. they just go online. there's a real anoying radio comercial that uses the sound of a modem connecting (which is why I refuse to visit their site), that tells people, don't bother looking up the info yourself, come to this site! what next? will some web site offer us cradle to grave security?

whoops. I forgot. thousands already do.

most of them ending in .gov