The comments about the Internet are spot on. It was a massive breakthrough in communication, even though it was never meant for public consumption - the original purpose was for scientific communication. This technology was truly disruptive, hence its incredible popularity and growth.
No no, this is not at all correct. The internet was totally meant to be adopted by everyone.
The first mechanism any regime wanting control and expansion implements, is controlling the populous through controlled information channels.
Controlling any media has been a goal to the elites for ages, and the internet is a great way of ensuring the ability to mass-load the masses with wanted world views and disinformation about the reality of politics, climate, financials, war, enemies, terrorism et al..
Just take a look at Russel Brand, a celebrity star directly working for the Fabian Society and the New Statesman publication, spreading their ideas about getting the population ready for revolution, which always means war - so that martial law can be instated.
The problem comes in when one puts advanced technology in the hands of all people of the world. Be it weapons or Internet, people with bad intent latch onto it as a means of being even more destructive than they could have been before. Anyone remember life before hacking?
This is partially correct but also incorrect.
Thugs, thieves and local mafia of course will utilize any technology available, but the real bad people are the psychopath elites that runs our world, being in control of banks, politicians, military industrial complexes..
Even music was strongly affected. I'm no fan of the old music business, but now anyone and everyone thinks they're able to make music, and most of it online is crap. The same goes for news - distinguishing between the real and not so real is an exhausting exercise because of everyone having an opinion.
Yes indeed, and this is directly related to how communication mechanisms, like the internet, has been rolled-out, precisely in order to be be able to take over any means of media control.
I certainly believe that humanity has become less intelligent over time.
Exactly. There's a major difference between intellect and intelligence.
Having a highly active left brain hemisphere but incapable of using the right hemisphere, can still be said to have a high intellect.
The word Intelligence is derived from Latin: intelli + genza (IIRC on the two parts), meaning the ability to put together knowledge in the mind - which requires full use of both brain hemispheres (plus some more).
Controlled media has played a major role in reducing intellect.
TV sets were introduced specifically for this purpose: "We want a TV in every home- for dumbing-down the population".
It is such topics I've been researching for 6½+ years. A grueling experience..