Is Google Making us Stupid?

What is the Internet doinig to our brain?
Remember in 2001: A Space Odyssey where the astronaut was coldy disconnecting the memory circuits as Hal pleads "Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it." Is that what the Internet is doing to our brains? In the article in the Atlantic, author Nicholas Carr writes that "media supplies the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski." For those of us who spend much time with the Internet medium, this article is definitely required reading.
Source: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Atlantic July/August 2008