Don't Be Dumb

My first reactions to this article was, "Wow, if people think this about our generation they are fools." At first I thought that it was comical, it somewhat angered me that people felt we were not as capable or smart as prior generations. Then I started to look at our generation and realized that we are almost more advanced than prior generations. We have had to learn to use a computer and everything involved with the Internet and different applications. We have also innovated communication and internet usage. We even created our own language. Y people say that we r not as smart when we can talk like this idk. It is true however, that we do not read as many books, but we read just as much, if not more online. I know that i read a blog everyday and usually read articles on espn.com or read online for homework. Really, our generation will learn more in school than every other generation. For example, my parents generation would not have studied the Iraq war and the 9/11 terrorist attacks because those incidents didn't happen until long after they were out of school. That scenario goes for every subject because new books are always coming out, new scientific discoveries, there have been more in depth studies in mathematics, and there are different economic scenarios. However, I don't believe there is such a thing possible as the dumbest generation. I think that every generation has different technologies and is more capable at something than others. For example our generation is more technologically advanced than any other generation before us. However, 200 years ago, people were probably better at hands on things like building houses or hand-making clothes.