Analysis of "The Dumbing of America"

According to Susan Jacoby, the author of “The Dumbing of America,” with the advancements in technology, Americans are actually becoming less intellectual.  In Jacoby’s article that was published in the Washington Post, she states that with the rise of personal computers and web surfing, there has been a steep decrease in percentage of college students who read novels for pleasure.  Her research even declared that in babies who watched videos there is a proven fact that it made them less developed the more they watched videos. 

            I think Jacoby was a little one sided in this article.  To me she seems against the rise and advancements in technology.  Her case with the study of college students can be argued a different way.  Just because personal computers and the web have developed since when they first started the study, doesn’t mean this made the students not able to read the novels, but maybe it’s a choice.  Some people like to do other things than just sit and read a book like the old days.  In today’s world technology affects almost all of what we do.  If she wants to prove that in this study college students became less intelligent, then they should do a study on the modern college student’s intellectualism and see if there’s a different compared to 1984.