Thought provoking aticle — I agree with much of what you have proposed, but tend to disagree that technology has made us ‘smarter’, depending on how you are defining the word. Tech has most definitely given more of us access to a wealth of information much more easily, but that does not mean we have become more intelligent or even better informed, and it does not mean that common sense (again, depending on how you define the term)is more prevalent. I believe we have more potential, but it is up to us to embrace both the past, present, and future.