Do people spend less time in contemplation and problem solving than they used to?

[Pisces Apple Lady]

My mom says she noticed it starting to a great extent during the Uranus conjunct Neptune transits at the end of the last century. So much of our technology advanced during that time, and I remember my parents buying me new computers every two years. They thought it was a good learning process for me since I did a lot of math, science, and educational games on them. In some ways it reminds me of Star Trek TNG, but people just have the better technology, and haven't developed better social skills or learned scientific or survival skills for real life.