Is google making us stupid.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

So as technology continues to become vital to our existance, like breathing, many people such as Nicholas Carr cannot help but indulge themselves in the concept "Is Google making us stupid". Well personally after reading his article, I can't help but think differently about the side effects of our technological dependance. It is without a doubt in my mind that as we begin to change our literary mediums our way of thinking begins to change as well. However this can be viewed simply as a form of adaptation to environment.Continuous use of the internet and dependance on it for various reasons, has just "inevitably caused us to take on the qualities of those technologies".

We are the generation of options. We constantly need to be on the go, and through the internet this need has made itself available right at our fingertips. Google has created the very thing we crave when it comes to knowledge. It has given us the options we need, and allows us to pick and choose what we want to read and how we want to think. Also more importantly, it keeps us moving, our minds are always on the go, flipping through pages, youtube videos, and other internet mediums.So I cannot find myself to think that the internet has really made us less intellectual as we were many decades ago.

Our internet today is simply the evolved version of a book on tape...right?