is google making us stupid?

"“My concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."” This passage is a perfect match to my stream of consciousness when I read. Unless it is something that really interests me I tend to lose focus just as Carr describes. I have never thought about it in the same way he does here though: that the way we are now more used to seeing information is more exciting and entertaining than reading long articles with the same ideas or information. I can definitely see his point but this “change in thinking,” if you will, over the last ten years may also be due to the lack of emphasis put on extensive reading in schools as it used to be when our grandparents were in school. Carr is raising a great and very controversial question.