George F. Will's IPod's Missed Manners

In today's Washington Post, George F. Will made the following comment in his weekly column:

With everyone chatting on cell phones when not floating in iPod-land, "this is an age of social autism, in which people just can't see the value of imagining their impact on others." We are entertaining ourselves into inanition. And multiplying technologies of portable entertainments will enable "limitless self-absorption," which will make people solipsistic, inconsiderate and antisocial. Hence manners are becoming unmannerly in this "age of lazy moral relativism combined with aggressive social insolence."

Schools are already starting to discipline students because of Internet activity (see my other post). As mentioned in my prior post, I wonder if schools need to take a more visable role on this topic and add it to our character education programs. We had some students disciplined on their use of IM that carried into the school this week. How ironic or timely that George F. Will actually talks about the social implications of all of this technology? I wonder if SLI needs to add another chapter now.