ADVANCED CIVILIZATION?

Modern technology has made our world smaller and smaller. There was a time in our history when it took weeks for news of world events to reach the general populace. Today, news of world events are received almost instantaneously. In fact, modern technology has literally made us witnesses to major world events. There is so much information available to us now that there are even people and organizations that process the information for us, tell us what it means, and even tell us how we should feel about it. I find it unsettling that the more we allow someone else to process information for us, the less time we spend actually thinking for ourselves. How dangerous is that!? When we no longer think for ourselves, we are so easily lead and 'mislead'! All of the amazing tools, technology and information available to us today should make us an extraordinarily advanced civilization. Instead, given the way we are utilizing all if this, I think we risk becoming the best informed society to ever die of ignorance.