Smarter but that's offset BIG TIME by more gullible and less informed.
that...doesn't make any sense at all.
how are they smarter?
Smarter as in every year the 50% line on IQ tests gets moved up a bit. As in raw intelligence or whatever IQ tests measure.
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people certainly have more/easy access to information than ever before but so very few of them are using it productively
Mostly they use it for cute cat videos and to confirm their conformation bias.
They are not using it to educate themselves in anything productive. Fone, with his massive Simpsons and other pop culture vid knowledge, is actually better than most.
P. S. I blame this on the media in general not just the internet. IMHO it started about when TV news went from the documentary model to the drama model but there was a paradigm shift in all news media at the time.