It seems to me that people have ceased to develop in our days. There are few people who read books and study to play musical instruments. The majority of TV shows has a primitive appearance, and such articles are written in magazines that I am just surprised, how journalists could write such things.
The fact strongly surprises me that scientists consider that people started to develop faster. It seems to me that such people who invent something and move the progress - become less. The large companies like Sony or Nokia constantly think out something new but only to increase their own sales and profits. May be I'm wrong, and not everything is so sad but just people near me are such...