Is Google Making Us Stupid?

"Over the past few years I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory." Nicholas Carr's project seems to be stating that the Net seems to be chipping away the capacity for concentration as well as contemplation. This basically means that now, not only is it hard for people to be focused for a period of time, but it's also hard to actually read the entire article! We mainly just skim through it. "The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing." People tend to "hop" from site to site and very seldomly return to those sites.
The author, Nicholas Carr, says many things about technology. First he says that the Internet is taking away our concentration and our thoughtful observations. Not only do we just skim through articles but we rarely ever go back to them. Then he makes the point that, "Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged." In other words, when we read, we don't connect with what we are reading, we just skim right through it. And then he writes that we have to catechize our minds how to translate the symbolic characters we see into the language we can actually conceive. And then he says that the media or other technologies we use in learning and actually making real life practice with what you have learned play a huge and important role in shaping the "neural circuits inside our brains."
"The Internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It's becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV."I really like this claim. I thought it was a claim that the majority of people could actually agree with. If you really think about it, it's true. Many people (myself included) use technology on a day to day basis. Let's face it, many people would not be able to survive one day without technology.
This claim was most convincing for me because it is something that I can apply to myself and think how it affects me and if it's true or not. Does it make sense? Could others agree with the claim? In my opinion, yes. This claim definitely fits with the rest of the essay because it's stating it's main point. Technology, but more specifically the Internet is making us worse readers. Not only do readers now skim through articles, but they now tend to get more distracted. Who's to blame in his opinion? Technology. I think this claim is important to me, as a subject reading this essay because it gives me something to think about and apply to myself and see if it's something I agree with or it's something I object. I do think it depends on the person as well. I know for a fact that not all people use the Internet. My parents for example don't even know "how" to use one. Therefore, this claim isn't true for all people but for the majority, it is.