Is the Web making us stupid?

In a continuation of a familiar theme (cf the debate between David Weinberger and Andrew Keene), this rather dispiriting analysis from ReadWrite Web caught my eye:

Web 3.0 Might Be Really Stupid

What are you doing? How about now? Has anything changed since you started reading this blog post? Every story has a who, what, where, when, and why - but the event-driven nature of the social Web may be putting such a premium on broadcasting about what we're doing, that software designed to help us answer important questions like who and why are at risk of being neglected. It seems quite likely that we're going to miss those opportunities because our software is focused entirely on doing (and advertising) instead of on helping us think as much as it could. Of course that's much harder to do.

Is it really fair to keep claiming that, just because the participative web is becoming so versatile and 'plastic' that somehow it is to blame for our inability to distinguish between simply writing what we are doing and writing what we are thinking?  And is it true, do you think, that the web's increasing ability to be so responsive and immediate is part of the way in which it can also help us to think?  The only thing we have to remember, of course, is that the thinking part is our responsibility. 

My experience is that, in the end, it is discernment and experience that remain the most elusive ingredients in people's search for solutions and insights.  The web and the new tools of pattern analysis can prompt and challange and pose questions, but in the end people have to know how to make judgments.  Which I think is probably a good thing.