I wonder how much of this is selection bias by media. There are now twice as many human beings on this planet as when we were kids (totally making assumptions about you here, if you don't mind). That means more gifted kids, in addition to our ever more invasive media. Our various feeds are (unfortunately) full of page after page of people talking about the things they think their kids are doing. However I don't think kids today are especially special snowflakes compared to when we were kids. I'm not saying there aren't gifted kids. I just mean it's probably not right or true to say that gifted kids these days are more amazing than gifted kids of yesteryear. And it doesn't help that every parent on the planet sells their kid as a genius. Even the parents of stupid kids.
