I tried really hard not to just skim "Is Google making us Stupid?"

I really really liked Nicholas Carr's article, which I’m sure isn’t a surprise. It's funny because I actually had a hard time refraining myself from skimming, which pretty much proves Carr’s argument.  Point proven, the end...

...Just kidding. I've always been skeptical about the Internet, so I absorbed this article really well without any objections. I thought that Carr summarized the Internet's advantages well, the primary as being the "immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information". Which is pretty cool, if you actually use the information you gain in a valuable way.

I was so quick to accept Carr's thesis because I show the same symptoms that he described as the “Stupid” epidemic. My capacity for concentration and contemplation are pretty much gone. Maybe I'm just stupid on my own, and Google isn't the one the blame. But I seem to remember being pretty creative and focused on subjects that interested me when I was a little kid. I think that this article is easier to relate to as an adult who has lived through the evolution of technology and the Internet because there was an extended amount of time where they could not rely on those things. For us, we’ve grown up along with the Internet. We’ve never really lived without it. And I can’t help but feel a little sad when I think of that.

This was my favorite line of the article, because I feel the same way:  "My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."

Carr was spot-on when he described the style of reading promoted by the Net as being one that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else. That is not how learning should be, and through our past blog posts, many people have claimed that they use the Internet to learn a lot of things, even comparing the StumbleUpon “education” to the education you receive in class. I think that is super ridiculous. Hey, maybe if you weren’t actually on StumbleUpon during class, you wouldn’t be comparing how well they educate you.
I was horrified by Google’s Brin and Page’s comments on technology’s future as artificial intelligence. Carr was right to argue against the idea that “The more pieces of information we can “access” and the faster we can extract their gist, the more productive we become as thinkers.” Who cares how much information you come across if you don’t ever really process it or learn and grow from it?

Other points I found were interesting was about Nietzsche and his quote that “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.” I didn’t really understand how this relates to modern day… Could anyone explain it?

In conclusion, we can no longer interpret text without distraction. And after we’re distracted, we forget about what we were reading/skimming. Thus, our time is wasted and we gained no knowledge.

How do we fix this? Do we read more books, use the Internet less? Take more time doing our homework? What are your ideas? 
Also----- Do any of you disagree? What is your counterargument?