is google making us stupid?

I would have to say that I agree with most of what Carr is saying in his article. When i first started reading it I got bored, got on Facebook, and got too distracted and decided to read the article later, not even thinking about the irony of doing that. I don't necessarily think that Google and the internet in general is making us stupid, but mainly lazy, distracted, and obsessed with immediate satisfaction. In our fast pace world, technology is allowing us to multitask a lot better. We can be writing a paper while doing research for another one and updating our Facebook statuses. I think were so caught up in getting everything we want right then and there we feel like we don't have time to be doing just one thing at a time, like reading a book. Also, going along with that immediate satisfaction, we want to know how the book ends right away. We feel like we only need the main idea and key parts not all the little details; we just want to know what happens without doing the work. With the internet, we can simply go on sparknotes or another site and get a shortened summary of everything that happens in the book, this shows our immediate satisfaction need, and our laziness. I think it could somewhat affect how we learn because the it keeps us so entertained and doing so many things at once, that simply sitting in a classroom and listening to a lecture becomes even more boring than it should be and we can't keep focus on what's in front of us. I think this can be a really bad thing but also can help us to become more intelligent. Since we are so used to the idea of multitasking, a simple classroom could be changed to where we are doing more things at once so we don't get bored and stop listening we stay in tune so we can complete all the tasks presented. This could go well or cause teachers to become less important and cause problems. I don't know what the new learning style should be like but I think that because of the internet and technology were able to do more and we do need a change in how we're taught. The internet has many benefits and is ideal for our world today but it does come with a cost. It also makes me fear the behavior patterns of future generations, who knows what type of technology will be out in the next 50 years and how it will affect our society. Overall, I would say that Google and internet access in general, like anything in the world, has a positive and negative side to it.