Jbrookins - 3:30 pm on Aug 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

Other breaking news items: The sky is blue, water is wet, and the earth is round.

Two problems that I see continuing on ad infinitum:

1. Roughly 50% of the population is below average intelligence. Cliche, sure, but that means there are an awful lot of stupid people out there considering that average intelligence isn't particularly impressive. (And just think! Really intelligent folks tend to breed far less these days...)

2. Currently, we (western society, at least) tends to be on information overload, unnecessarily hectic and goal oriented. Low attention spans and a general tendency to rush through things makes for a bad combination. Couple that with the fact that a search engine is SUPPOSED to feed you the most relevant results first and even intelligent people aren't paying nearly as much attention to detail as one would hope.