Everything he says is true, of course. But there is another side. The new media are useful when used in moderation.
How would we know what Plato said about writing, if it hadn’t been written down? How likely would it be that we would have the Iliad and the Odyssey if they hadn’t been written down for us to read? Even if that makes it difficult to write more epics now?
Google search is probably bad for young people who would otherwise commit more stuff to memory. On the other hand, it’s very useful for an oldster like me, who remembers something vaguely but needs to use Google search to recover the details. You still need to remember enough to know what to look for.
Too much internet can be destructive, but without it, the MSM would be totally irresistible.
In other words, yes, there are two sides to the coin.
Indeed. The Internet has opened the news to Everyman.
The kind of people who get sucked into narcissism or pornography with technology would find other forms of expressing their character defects without it.
BTW, word processing is a gift from God, as far as I'm concerned.