Is Google Making us Stupid?

I absolutely loved this article. I actually debated doing my final presentation on the strategies and effects that Google has had on our society, and on us as individuals. I actually agree with alot of what Nicholas Carr has to say and think about Google in his article. I do believe that we as a society have basically become drones of the internet thriving of the immediate and convenient access to such a rich and diverse store if information. So is Google making us stupid? I personally don't think that google is particularly making us stupid at all. I think that google and the simple access to so much information is making us more lazy than stupid. I personally can can actually thank Google for expanding my knowledge of things that in the past I may not have taken the time to reserch. The human brain is definately malleable, and the way that we use these modern tools such as google or anything via the internet, is definately shaping the process in which we obtain and utilize the information we gather.
Some will certainly find biased ideas in this article, but many of the facts remain undenied. Everyone reading the article and blogging about the article are using google to do all of it. The author stresses that most of us are "power browsing" and "skimming" through information, and the time is past of reading long arduous articles of information. I feel that Google is a great and powerful tool that can be used to advance knowledge and understanding. On the other hand, its ease of access makes it perfectly capable of lending to ones stupidity...