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Human society is at breaking point where people who are passionate and are driven to improve themselves are in the minority.
Scientists of old made many blunders, miscalculations and learned from them. Some at cost of lives and livelihoods. Working from dredges of society to esteemed universities, unlike today. Masses are lazy, inept and have severe victim complex that it's easier to spend years wasting money doing liberal arts/gender studies that have qualifications to flip burgers at McDonald's or Barista job at Starbucks.
It says a lot that you somehow think that this is a new development. Most people aren't driven intellectual powerhouses who would've changed the world if it weren't for that darned technology.Majority of people on the planet are both stupid and fat often mentally ill to boot, you can't deny that development in human society.
Again before the invention of the internet people just didn't go to the library. The people who did spend an excessive amount of time reading were viewed as eccentric and given labels such as "egg-head", "nerd", etc. In this the writing comparison is very apt - after the advent of wireless internet and the knowledge of humanity available at people's fingertips folks still don't give enough of a shit to actually do any research on any given topic if they aren't already autistically interested in it. What you have now is not a new development but a much easier view into the life and personality of the average human being.
We have civilizations, technology, innovation in spite of our basal natures. Not because we're all deep down enlightened thinkers deprived of the drive for success. Humans by default are like every other animal on the planet, going with the flow of least resistance and with some being more driven, more capable, more willing to go further to survive and strive than others. I reiterate that none of this shit is new.
I like the guy as a meme but neo-luddisim is blaming the burning house for the fire. Technology isn't the problem and such a worldview stems from the opposite of a worldview that views everyone as dimwits, which is equally erroneous. I'm not saying people are stupid and have always been so - although I guess I have earlier albeit I was being more tongue-in-cheek - folks are incurious. It takes energy, effort to learn and what-have-you. If you haven't noticed yet humanity has never lived through an age where the predominant demographic were geniuses solving problems constantly.Think of Ted what you like, but he's right and you can't deny reality.
TL;DR: Your idea is making the assumption that people were smarter in the past due to a lack of technology. It's an erroneous, romanticized view of not only history but humanity itself. Technology doesn't retard, it enhances. What you're seeing is the enhanced and magnified effect of laypeople - normies - being able to share their thoughts, personalities, interests, hell their lives in general to the world and thus are capable now more than ever of witnessing what the person most driven to post on social media or whatever is like. Most people for the vast majority of history had no idea that the people living the town next over were just as asinine and banal as they were. It is both a blessing and a curse to finally know what the unwashed masses are like. It's always been this way and I hate to say it, it probably always will be.