Google Making us Stupid?

In Nicholas Carr's essay, "Is Google Making Us Stupid", he summarizes how the internet is affecting the way we read and live. He tells of an inability to read more than a few pages anymore, without loosing interest. Carr often finds himself "dragging my wayward brain back to the text", and he's not the only one. Scott Karp and Bruce Friedman, both bloggers have noticed the same trend as well. Maryanne Wolf of Tufts University is claiming that the internet is changing how we read, and how we think, putting efficiency before all else.
Carr claims "what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation". He believes that one of the trade offs of the efficiency and immediacy of the internet is it doesn't require the user to think, just point and click. Carr's claim that "I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski", is essentally what Sven Birkerts is saying in his paper "The Owl has Flown". Other than Karp and Friedman, Carr references a study done by University College London, researching how people find information on the internet. They found that most people just scan a page, look for important information, and move on the the next one if they don't find anything.