Yeah, true, they are less active. On the other hand their hand-eye coordination is better. They learn faster, better, more.
Now we have 11 year old programmers. Children that speak many languages. Non English kids that know proficient English before they go to school. In a way it's about how you look at things. Technology is not bad. It's how you use it. People should be more responsible for their own actions and not blame everything else for their failures.
I agree. Children are now smarter with new technologies. We simply did not have the opportunity to study so qualitatively and we spent more time on the street, because we had nothing to do.
Moreover, children now have more information than we had at the time. With the advent of the Internet, information and knowledge are disseminated with great speed. We just don't understand our children. The conflict of generations has always been.