Dis/connect

Sometimes I wonder does ICT connects us more or disconnects us to the reality. We live in a haze, surrounded by screens all day long. We are the internet generations, always connected, always on, always ready to scrap or twit the latest thought that popped in our head. I love internet, no doubt today, imagining life without it impossible. So much so the weather widget shows me the the days meteo before my window opens to the outside world. Internet addiction has become a psychological disease in South Korea.
I love the democratizing effect of the internet, how it lets us express ourself but to a certain extent, lately I have started feeling how the information overload has started homogenizing our thought process. Do you remember the last time you visit a library searching for a book to understand a problem in detail, I don't. I can just google it and surely someone would have provided a solution.
Try a simple exercise, just observe your online activity for an hour. You search for one subject and then you find something else interesting and you follow it. In the end you are looking at something totally different. To a certain extent we are turning into attention deficits, we need something to continuously tantalize and entertain us.
We have become adherent consumers of information and I am noticing a trend of people building on information already provided. No doubt it speeds up the development cycles, enables faster delivery but it also restricts deeper understanding and fundamentally different and innovative solutions. I feel we have mastered ctrl-c,v and we are merely replicating and transforming the given.