Is Google Making Us Stupid Respone

After reading Nicholas Carr's article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"  he really got me thinking about the internet and how it affects our thought process. I would have to agree with him on some points, such as the fact that the internet has wildly changed the way we receive our information and how we read articles on the internet. I would also have to disagree with him on some points, such as the internet making us stupid and causing us to do more skimming then actual reading.
The first thing I would to point to point out is how utterly boring his article was to read, he wasn't even trying to interact with the readers. For some reason he thought that if he talked about  Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey for half of his article it would make it more interesting. If anything all that did was drive people away from his article and onto more interesting topics. Other then that pointless reference that he comes back to over and over again, he just lists random facts and 100 other hyperlinks on where we can go to read more into something we don't care about. I would understand if he had used maybe 5 or so links to get his point across, but there is at least one or more links in almost every paragraph. Its like he doesn't even want us to read his article at all, just use it as a reference to find unnecessary information such as Phaedrus or War and Peace.
Throughout his lengthily article he did manage to get some good points across to the readers. Such as how the style in which we read has changed, and "as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence."
Then there is the idea that the internet is destroying our intelligence just because we can find more information on it then going to a local library and spending 5 hours scouring the pages of a book filled with useless and redundant information just to find that 1 small piece of needed information. Just because our "new era" of giving and receiving information is more organized and efficient doesn't mean that our society is plumiting into an idiocrity. Our society as a whole is reading and is more informed today then we probably ever were, be it through facebook, a blogpost or an article that has more to deal with a crappy space movie than the title itself. All I am saying is yes, the internet has changed the way we read and receive our information, but just because we don't devote our full attention to a 500 page book about how an astronaut met a unicorn on Uranus doesn't really make the change bad now does it?