"...the scales could tip in favour of disconnection, isolation, and a descent into a kind of stupidity we haven’t seen in many years."
I think "stupidity" is an awfully loaded word here. I'm hardly anti-Internet or a Luddite. I do, however, think that intelligence may be enhanced with an occasional foray into offline answer-seeking. I don't think that Google having all of the answers (some of them even correct) to satisfy our every inquisitive impulse is always healthy. Likewise, I think that useful knowledge experts are often drowned out by a cacophonous army of online celebrities keen to offer a bombastic "hot take" on everything.
Disconnection may offer its share of stupidity, but connectivity has its pitfalls, too.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
