Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Google is an excuse for anything and everything. You can find the dumbest things and the smartest information, a range of so many things that relate to every topic ever thought of it almost seems like we would be ignorant to say that Google is making us stupid. When seeking information these days the first thing almost anyone does is google it, it has become a verb. Most of the population would have more difficulty functioning because we have become so dependent and so used to literally having all knowledge right infront of our eyes. Google makes people lazy, it is simple and requires no knowledge or take much time to find so that when we get the information we do not really discover it. Everything is skimmed rather than sifted, making it atrificial knowlegde from what is described by Carr as atrificial intelligence. Computers respond to our patterns. Websites are always completeing themselves as what the search guesses we might type in. Sometimes I think about my Itunes as having artificial intelligence, the same way a search engine on Google would... it knows our brains and while that is convienant, it is a little scary. Carr writes about how our desire to read has diminished and how books are neglected. To me, reading is still mesmorising, but how is it that I can spend 3 hours on the computer without a blink or a realization of the time, yet if I'm reading a book my eyes become tired and while i can concentrate I defnitely cant do it for more than a couple of hours, and i will need to take a little mental break in between. The color the words, the movement, the pictures all capture us into the Web and create a virtual world that many seem to have become lost in.