Wired world to be boon, bane for Gen Y

WASHINGTON: There is a good chance young people growing up in today’s always-wired world will eventually become bright, nimble decision makers — if they don’t wind up intellectual lightweights unable to concentrate long enough to chew over a good book.

So say 1,021 technology insiders, critics and students surveyed by the Pew Research Centre who were fairly evenly split about how always-on technology will impact the teenagers and twenty-somethings of “Generation Y.”