re: Age of Less Brain Power

Zac,

Great points - I agree that most people live in a bubble. But that's been the case for millions of years. Most Greeks and Romans had no idea what Pythagoras and Plato were up to. They barely knew what Caesar and Jesus were up to. Most people have always been ignorant and relatively useless in the grand scheme of things (although they are the ones who usually feed us and clothe us with manual labor).

The select few who are using the internet and all the current information for great purposes are doing amazing things though. For example, science, computing, and medicine have done incredible things that weren't even imagined 20 years ago. In the past few months, I've read that a company in South Korea is commercially cloning dead dogs ($30k) and there is a contest for entrepreneurs to fly to the moon ($5m prize). I wouldn't exactly label this age as "less brain power..."