As someone who at one point grew up without the internet, I think I can safely say that my attention has gone out the window with the web. There are just too many things to look at now and browser tabs are constantly competing for my attention. In fact, I would blame inattention for the lack of personal success in my life. Hell, it was even hard getting through the entire article, I just wanted to skip to the end and read the comments. Ugh... sad. Also, it doesn't help that we have news feeds like Hacker News, Designer News, Reddit etc...spewing info left and right. Before the sharing of information you'd be familiar with the work of a few, now everything is out there and your access to information is pretty much unlimited - that's a lot of info competing for limited attention.