I’ve said it before. I think society is going in the direction of an Idiocracy. Not because of a decrease in genetic diversity, but because decision support technology is removing our need to actually think. And it increases our arrogance because now everyone can think they are an expect because they can look up something on Wikipedia.
Don’t confuse thinking with the ability to win trivia contests. You can look up what years Grover Cleveland was President on Wikipedia (and you could have done it fifty years ago in the Encyclopedia Britannica) but you’re still going to have to think to decide whether or not he was a good president.