Is Google Making Us Stupid

In "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr it discusses about how in todays era people seem to be more connected with internet and it is causing negative affects on the way way people read. "And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capactiy for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles"(Par.4). Nicholas is trying to say that the net is ruining his ability to concentrate but in fact his mind now expects to learn information the way the net distributes it. "As we use the what the sociologist Daniel Bell has alled our "intellectual technologies"- the tools that extend our mental rather than our physical capacities-we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies"(Par.12). Carr is trying to say that we are starting to think/act the way technology does, wanting to jump from information to information and getting bits of information instead of taking the time to read the entire book/article. "As people's minds become attuned to the crazy quilt of Internet media, traditional media have to adapt to the audience's new expectations"(Par.17) As it is said that the net has changed how think, but in fact everything has to adapt to ways so that it will help focus the audience.