Did Creating Google Made Us Stupid?

Carr, N. (2008). Is Google Making Us Stupid? (page 91). published the Atlantic Media. From 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology Fourth Edition.    

In Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making us Stupid?” he notes that the more time he spends online, the harder time he has reading deeply and he struggles with concentration and contemplation.  Carr says others have felt this too; they report skimming texts instead of sustained attention. Recent studies back up these claims. Carr interviews psychologist Maryanne Wolf who says the Internet, with its emphasis on speed and volume, may be destroying our ability to engage deeply with texts. Carr points out that Nietzsche’s writing style changed after he acquired a typewriter, and even the invention of clocks affected the way people think about themselves and their world. The Internet has changed people’s thinking even more. It has even shaped traditional media to become more like itself. Carr discusses Frederick Winslow Taylor who used a stopwatch to promote efficiency in early factories. His ideas have become the cornerstone of modern industry, and this approach has now come to dominate the Internet, and by extension, thinking.  Google is the best example of this, in its effort to organize everything with the ultimate search engine. Carr wraps up by suggesting that perhaps new technology has always changed the way we think, but then again the Internet’s effect is deep and profound. He fears we have become “pancake people:” wide but thin, and that human intelligence is more and more resembling artificial intelligence.