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I think the issue is that too much of any one type of thinking is a poor option for analyzing problems. At some points I need to long focus on a task and at some points I need to quickly jump from idea to idea. Are we as a species losing the long focus? Perhaps. Does that mean an end to scientific endeavor? Probably not. It might change the kinds of things that result from our endeavors, but that would be it. Judging if that is good or bad is going to need a few decades to see if the 2000s were a wasteland of creativity.
I work in IT. I'm a solution architect and an information architecture geek. I don't own a cellphone or a tablet (yet.) I disconnect whenever possible and spend time sitting on my front step with the sidewalk chalk and my three-year old. I think it's all part of balancing out the kinds of thinking we do.
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