We may not necessarily argue that people should not use electronics, but we may need to stress that whatever people do. This is a harder thing to solve for education than just tell people to see how to use computers. None of the members on ths very list uses computers in the same way. There is no one way to do it. All there is are needs, their assessment and their management.
Intelligence is more than an ability to read what is out there.
There is just simply too much. I think in the past people's sophistication had to grow first in order to free the way for sciences. Discovery is not a matter of the product but of the time. What matters is to explore why we have not accepted things before and how can we tehrefore make room for posotive changes which free way for creative thinking without its reduction to a dogma of the times. I scratch your back policy is becoming easier to implement.