"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

When was the last time that I sat down and engrossed myself in a lengthy novel? I remember as a child easily knocking off three books in a week. According to Nicholas Carr in "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Carr feels a certain entity is "tinkering" and "reprogramming" his mind and the minds of millions. This thought is both frightening and terrifying revealing a glimpse into the future, a future where the human brain is no longer able to retain memory or concentrate on one subject. Typing in www.google.com and clicking the search button has become secondary nature to anyone with access to the Internet. Google eliminates the stress and work of having to search for hours upon hours in the library looking through countless periodicals. The advantages of finding an infinite amount of information using just one click are endless. However, Nicholas Carr sees Google as a destructive tool that shapes and morphs the neural circuitry in the brain. The ways one used to think have been changed. They have been altered and disfigured. They have been replaced by an "artificial intelligence." Are these new ways of thinking necessarily bad though? Humans may have never written books because they worried over whether our ways of thinking would dramatically change for the worse. The act of not writing books would have been a crime to humanity. Reading has sparked areas in the brain never imagined, broadening each person's intelligence. I feel Google has a lot to offer and only time will tell what the effects are on the human mind.