is google making us stupid?

Nicholas Carr writes that Google is dumbing down society. He claims that Google is changing the way that we, as a society, think. "Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy...now my concentration starts to drift." The premise that Google is dumbing people down is false. Rather than having a deep, in depth understanding of a subject, people are now gaining a greater knowledge of many subjects. People are becoming more well rounded. This is a good thing. If someone knows everything there is to know about one thing, they may be ignorant of many other things.