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Realthuddydrumz posted...

Its surely relevant today, but was less so when it was made since, if I am not mistaken, these kids are part of the most intelligent age group in the history of our species.

That's... exactly the point Feeny was making. At the time in question, people had access to amounts of information that would have been considered miraculous even 2-3 decades prior, let alone earlier in history, but they took it for granted and largely squandered that technology on entertainment instead of enrichment. He was observing exactly the trend that you're referencing, which is that the proliferation of increasingly advanced information technology has resulted in humanity relying on that technology to access knowledge instead of synthesizing it themselves or putting in any sort of genuine effort to learn meaningful information. The points he was making have only become more relevant, given that advances like Wikipedia, social media, and smartphones have made information even more accessible, and we're all even more likely to take that for granted by regarding the repository of all human knowledge in our pockets as trivial.

If we're going with "people turned dumb after the 90's" as a thesis (which is perhaps a bit of an oversimplification, but we can go with it), "you're all wasting this miraculous new technology on stupid nonsense" fits into that thesis pretty perfectly.