Technology: Breaking One Attention Span At A Time

There are pros and cons to an overly connected world. I'll admit my iPhone is better than whiskey in awkward situations, because there's always something to distract my mind from what's actually in front of me. But will all this technology cause the next generation to be less productive? A new survey suggest that more good than bad will come out of "wired" (or should I say wireless) children growing up in today's world, but we must proceed with caution.
The Internet is compared to a supplemental brain, where knowing how to obtain  information is more important than merely regurgitating information, like most of us spent painstaking years in school doing.    
Being surrounded by technology is comparable to tabbed browsing. You can open as many tabs as you want, but in reality your brain can only handle one thing effectively at a time. You can open 100 tabs, but if you're not sure why you opened the page, or how the information is useful to you, the tool is useless.
Although my grandma used to get pretty fed up with incessant text messaging, and "those new fangled devices," there seems to be hope for generations to come.
Now I must return to my Facebook chat, Twitter conversation, iMessage and Pintrest sharing...