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So the opposite of the premise of Idiocracy is true?

• nwatson 12y ago
  Guess so. That's the premise of "Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter" by Steven Johnson (http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Bad-Good-You-Actually/dp/1594481946 http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Bad-Good-You-Actually/dp/15...). Though Idiocracy is a great underappreciated film.
  • buckbova 12y ago
    It does make sense the humans would get better at pattern matching. Interacting with UIs constantly and exposure to video games with loads of information must be good for the brain.
• MasterScrat 12y ago
  Yes. Very relevant: http://xkcd.com/603/ http://xkcd.com/603/
  • defen 12y ago
    For an alternative view...see "A Farewell to Alms" by Gregory Clark. From about 1200-1800, in England, the rich actually had more surviving descendants than the poor. I don't know who had more births, but that doesn't matter. Basically, the poor would periodically die off from famine and disease, whereas if the economic upper classes had too many children, they would move into the lower classes (rather than die). Most people of English descent today are descended from the upper classes of the Middle Ages.