Is google making us stupid:response

I wouldnt say directly that google is making us stupid but i will say that it is making the world a lot more lazy. Yes while google is very helpful it definitely takes the excitment factor out of learning on your own. Most kids today would rather type a question into google and wait for a response as opposed to picking up the book that contains the answer. Many times i find myself on google but only when it is my absolute late option which isnt very often. In the article i read a few of his refrences and they made complete sense as to how the younger or technology age is directly affecting the newer generation of children coming up in school these days. These children lack the basic principles of problem solving which you cannot clearly learn on a computer because i believe that it first comes from common sense then from a good education that many of them will not recieve because they lack the drive to recieve the proper education. The writer himself even leaves this as an open-ended argument because there is no proven state as to it making us stupid but really just poses the question really looking for opinions and answers to what he believes. I have seen first hand the laziness that comes with google which is no fault of the creator but of the codependent user. At no time in life will "the information highway" replace the need for education and to be honest it actually takes away from the process by giving people the easy way out. By simply taking a question that can simply be researched with a good book they choose to take the time and look it up on the internet. What is there to gain from that? If we actually take the time to think about how long it could possibly take to find answers on book pages as opposed to how long it took to find something on google we will realuze that in the end we spend MORE time with google or at least an equal amount of time. Google is so vague and generalized that when you do in fact find the answer you were originally looking for you may have gone through about 10 or so links that lead to more links which is really a waste of time. I wonder how most tech addicts would have survived in a time where there were only books and wisdom to refer to.