Is Google Making Us Stupid?

I found the article “Is Google making us stupid?” by Nicholas Carr interesting. He made good points. I can relate to him when he says he used to be able to sit and read a book but now he gets distracted after two or three pages. This makes me wonder if it’s the time spent on the internet that really causes this. I agree with some things that he said but I also disagree with some. His point of view is basically negative, while I find Google to be very useful in some cases. Yes, it takes the time that used to be spent going through many different books to try and find information but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I believe Google has changed technology extremely. Now, you can look up something in five minutes through the search engine rather than taking twenty minutes looking through books. A good negative point could be the fact that Google can be at the tip of your fingers at all time. My cellphone has to have Google in order to work/ technology being this advanced is a negative thing that should be changed. I do not agree that Google is making us stupid; I actually think it’s helping us accomplish things much faster than we would have during earlier times.