Originally Posted by Darkland

I think you would be mistaken. I think we are breeding intelligent people less and less, or at the very least with economic problems those who might have had a chance wont. Add to that the VERY REAL and documented decline in the bare bones educational system.

You want a perfect example of how smart we're NOT? Check this timeline out.
1. All communications via letters sent by post.
2. Yippee, we get the telegraph and now communicate via signals down a wire. The communication is dashes and dots, Morse Code.
3. Holy shit... Here comes the phone. I can hear their voices. Still restricted to a wire or land line.
4. Now things get trippy... WE DISCOVER RADIO WAVES! And are able to communicate over long distances with NO WIRE. That shits magic.
5. Now there seems to be a large gap in history before we come up with any real new ideas.
6. Cell phones begin to arrive on the scene but they are little more than giant ass walkie talkies you can use as a lethal weapon.
7. Technology finds its fucking stride and takes off faster than the delorean in back to the future. It begins moving so fast nobody can keep up and cellphones become smaller and smaller.
8. And then someone has the genius idea of taking the advanced technology backwards several decades by allowing cellphones to be used like walkie talkies again. Click a button and talk, release the button and wait for response.
9. Then someone had another bizarre holy shit moment and said WAIT! Why stop there, lets really NOT maximize the use of our technology and the astounding happens. We go back to an over glorified version of the telegraph with text messaging.

Now how is that for idiocracy?