With so much knowledge at our fingertips, so much that is easily accessible, is our generation somehow adapting to absorb it better? Are we more intelligent than previous generations because of what we have that they didn't? Are we tapping into more potential?

I remember that in high school, whilst griping 'bout how much work we had, a friend commented that we probably wouldn't get as much course work, or even be able to go as in depth as we did, if we had to write and research manually.