I'm pretty damned sick and tired of people claiming the internet / television / printing press / fill-in-the-blank is making us dumber.  It's a tired old tune, and it's time we stopped mistaking the end of the world as we knew it with THE end of the world.  It's time to grow up, accept change, and realize that every change comes with good and bad.

The anti-internet philosophy is nothing new.  It's been used over and over again, every time there's some radical shift in media.  When you get...