In The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Dont Trust Anyone Under 30) Prof. Mark Bauerlein of Emory University argues that as younger Americans spend more time watching YouTube and chatting on

The Dumbest Generation : How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future

Introduction

The age of technology and information has brought lots of changes in the way people communicate with each other and carry out their routines lives . It was always believed that technology would make people smarter and efficient in their education and work but the real outcome seems to contradict with this notion . As the younger generation is spending more time on the net , socializing and living in a virtual world , the intellectual levels of the youth

are being affected . The book The Dumbest Generation : How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or , Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30 ' by Mark Bauerlein brings forth the changes that digital age have brought about in the lives of young people . In this , we will analyze why `reading` and `literature` in the post-print media make us less intellectually capable than reading print-based texts

Young Americans

The intellectual levels of the young Americans and their knowledge about the world affairs points towards the deteriorating effects the digital age is having on the younger generation . The young Americans seem to be unaware of what is going on in the world , except their surroundings and social circle . It isn 't enough to say that these young people are uninterested in world realities .Or a better way to put it is to say that they are encased in more immediate realities that shut out conditions beyond-friends , work , clothes...