'Is Google Making Us Stupid?' Response

    Carr makes some excellent points about just how ingrained computers and the internet are in our lives. We encounter them everyday in our personal lives with social networking, as a part of our education, for business and in the workplace. Because of today’s technology, we are used to everything being instantaneous. Our minds wander easily and it is especially easy to become distracted when we use the internet. This lack of concentration is probably a beneficial thing for companies because they can take advantage of our distraction and bombard us with ads. 
    The phenomenon of the internet is that it can deliver multiple diversions and conveniences to us and can take on the job of almost whatever we need it to be. There is online shopping and newspapers, and other sites like facebook and youtube which allow us to interact with each other on a worldwide scale. There are great advantages to being able to access the wealth of information which the internet provides. As Carr points out, researching takes far less time than it used to as there are many easily accessible online sources. There are also downsides to the internet, one of which Carr lists as our declining capacity to comprehend and interpret long pieces of writing.
    The internet and computers are truly incredible things that have been hailed as the technological breakthrough of our age. While they are powerful tools that enables us to do extraordinary things, sometimes we let them take too strong a precedence over our lives. I think this is part of the reason Carr has fears about technology dumbing us down. It can get to be like an addiction in some ways - such as the constant impulse to check in on facebook or twitter. It is easy to get distracted and it is probably a good idea to try to limit the time we spend on computers, but this is is much easier said than done.
    On the whole, I agree with many of the points Carr makes in this article. I can totally understand when he points out how difficult it is to lose track and get distracted while on the internet. He balances out his article with both pros and cons of the internet, and much of his writing is unbiased and informative. However, what Carr calls “Kubrick’s dark prophecy,” (how our reliance on computers is making our intelligence more artificial than theirs) might be true up to a point, but seems to be a rather skeptical view.
    I find that a good book will still hold  my attention, so I would not go as far as to say that google, the internet or computers are making us stupid in this way that pertains to reading. It is important to note that our brains are re-wiring themselves in order for us to try to comprehend and keep up with the quick pace of the internet, which is not the same thing as making us stupid. Carr points out that his mind “now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.” This is just adapting and learning to think in a different way.