Dumb and Dumber [Review of "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupifies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, Or Don't Trust Anyone Under 30" (Bauerlein, M.; 2008)]

Remember when technology was supposed to make us smarter? Not so fast, says Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein. In his book The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, Bauerlein argues that e-mail, blogging, e-zines, and gaming have produced a culture of young people more agile with images but with fewer critical thinking skills and underdeveloped cognitive habits. Their lack of curiosity endangers the future of American ingenuity.