Is Google Making us Stupid: Response

Is “Google” making us stupid? I think it really depends on how you define stupid. It was said in the article that the internet is not necessarily making us stupid, it is changing us. We no longer sit in libraries searching for books, we just type in what we want on “Google” and suddenly we have every source imaginable. We now, instead of reading every word of the one book we find, breeze through the vast expanse of text searching only for the very best piece of knowledge.  Some may call this stupidity but the world is changing and it would be stupid to try and hold on to the past. I love reading a good book, don’t get me wrong, but when it comes to research I wouldn’t be able to read book after book to only get a page of real info. So “Google” does not make us stupid, it may make us lazier but not stupid. We also may be able to argue that it is making us more efficient, we are now able to breeze through information and pick out important parts in a fraction of the time it used to. Look at grandparents for example; they take forever on the internet scanning every line of material for what their looking for. I do not think we will ever see the end of books but I think we can look at books today like we look at film cameras; they are outdated but they will always be used even though there is a much better and faster mean of talking a picture.