Is Google Making Us Stupid? (It's highly probable)

1. Would there even be a point of keeping libraries in the future if all information is kept digitally?
2. Is the Internet that much of a staple in our society that it's being compared to something as common as a clock?
3. Does scattered attention and diffused concentration (p.5) contribute to the increase in ADD/ADHD cases in children?
4. Why is it so important to increase the efficiency of gathering information?
5. Wouldn't majority of society be scared of artificial intelligence becoming too smart? (2001:A Space Odyssey; I, Robot; War Games; etc.
6. Is it likely that we are going to wind up as a machine-like culture that relies on technology?

 This article, compared to Gopnik's "The Information" article, sends the same message; technology has a significant effect on our society. It affects the way we think, the way we interact, the way we communicate, and much more. The shame of it all is that future generations will be born without experiencing a life without the mass amounts of technology that there will soon be. Most of us in this class were born around the early 90s/late 80s, so we have an idea of what life was like without technology orbiting around our skulls. It seems like kids today are born with Blackberrys in their hands and their 5th birthday present is a MacBook. Kids like these don't know anything but a life full of technology, and when they see how our culture was without all the hype, they'll sit there in disbelief and ask "How is it even possible to live like that?"