Not even mentioned is that never in history has a generation had access to so much information to back up opinions or factual statements and do so little with it. I call this the age of unreason as there also has never been so much inaccurate information available as we see with the actions of today’s liberals. Their belief that terabytes of poorly sourced touchy feeley opinion pieces can equal one fact is also ruining our society.
Which generation are you talking about?
The information currently in existence has been created by folks like you and I, who grew up in the days where information came through three broadcast networks and the local paper.
For all of the data available, we still tend to approach the world from that perspective.
For the younger folks who are just now coming into their own -- 25 and under, say -- they're the ones who will have grown up in the context of all of that information. In terms of information, their worldview is entirely different from ours. The ways in which they access and process information will be far different from how we think about it.
All that to say: I think we're at one of those points where it's not possible to predict the shape of society in the next 10-20 years. The ground-rules have changed too much.
Whether it's for good or ill, I don't know. But I think it will be far different from anything we've seen up to now, and society will be dramatically altered by it.