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I wouldn't have read the article if it weren't for the Internets.It probably wouldn't have been published if it weren't for the Internets.
Unless the next generation's eyeballs grow differenly, or their brains develop new clumps of brain, I don't think that we're in danger of any physical evolution.
Journalism, however, has evolved. It's become a mess of stream-of-conscious nonsense, with no attention whatsoever to the pyramid format, and attention to the who, what, when, where,and why presented in an order where the important information can be parsed out in less than 40 minutes.
In other words, thanks to the Internets, we people have taken over journalism's bizarrely self-appointed role of being the "final arbiter" of deciding what it is that we need to know. There's a form of social evolution that I applaud!
