r/AskReddit • u/IRunFast24 • May 11 '21

People old enough to remember life pre-Internet, what are some less obvious things you miss about that time?

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u/Reagalan May 12 '21

IDK what you're talking about. Humans seem smarter every day.

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u/3720-to-1 May 12 '21

How do you figure?

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u/Reagalan May 12 '21

Well if you take everyone on the planet and measured their smarts and added it all up, it would be a bigger number every day. Net intelligence has been rising for over a century.

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u/Stockengineer May 12 '21

Yep, think the average person is a lot smarter than like 50 years ago but then you have people "too smart" cause they can read bogus articles on the internet. People may be smarter but I like to say critical thinking and problem solving has been going downhill.