Who are pancake people?

Children born in the early 21st century will never know a world without the internet, cable TV, virtual libraries, and other forms of instant intellectual gratification. Critics of this phenomenon fear that instantaneous access has the potential to overload users. Instead of delving deeper into one discipline, many people are dabbling on the surface of many subjects. Author Richard Foreman described those who have spread themselves thinly across a wide spectrum of subjects as pancake people.