Is Google making us stupid? (BG)

This weeks article "Is google making us stupid" by Nicholas Carr, was interesting and an easy read. I thought it was interesting because i understand where hes coming from. Carr made alot of good points, and all are understandable. However, i feel that google is making it to easy to make us feel like it is making us stupid. Google is a collection of website links that can take you wherever you want to go with no thought. I believe that technology is helping but yet hurting in many ways. Like in my math class, we were told on the first day we were not allowed to use a calculator at all. We all just looked at each other in a kind of shocked and freaking out state. We were all so use to using a calculator in any of our other math classes, that alot of us struggled with the simplest long division problems, or it took us a little longer to work out some multiplication. However i do agree that maybe we do relay on google a little to much at times, being to lazy to check out a book in read it. I must admit id rather look something up online rather than read because i tend to get bored and lose focus if its not something i am interested in. while i don't agree with all of what Carr is saying, i do find some truth in it. This question doesn't have a wrong or right answer, its more of an opinion. I think that google can help accomplish alot but at the same time can also hurt.