Usually we have to wait awhile to see the errors of our fortune-tellers. Luckily this fellow is wrong right out of the starting gate: We know that communicatio

Usually we have to wait awhile to see the errors of our fortune-tellers. Luckily this fellow is wrong right out of the starting gate: We know that communications overload reduces your IQ: http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2007/ca20070920_461254.htm?campaign_id=rss_null http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2007/ca20070... Of course, that's just e-mail at work. But the "dumbing-down" of IT, education and work in general is unlikely to increase our IQ. Derek Bickerton, sometime co-author of the article's referenced William Calvin, believes that we may already be going the other way. In his book "Adam's Tongue" he points out how, over time, humans are becoming eerily similar to ants or termites, He also notes that it takes about 40 generations for a wolf to become a domesticated dog-like animal and that the caste system in India, which has probably been in place longer, may have left a permanent trace upon it's members.