Was he right?
Access to technology does not equate willingness to learn. A web page every 6 seconds means on page a year isn't fucking tripe. "Gutenberg's generation" read to escape the humdrum-ities of their lives as his kids played games to escape theirs.
I hate old people. I hate young people too, but at least young people aren't responsible for having raised the old people they hate. Old people have no excuse, they literally bred the young people and gave them all their ideals. Don't like the way they turned out? That's on you, old fucks, not the young people.