I Google, Therefore I Am Losing the Ability to Think

“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” was the provocative title of a recent article in the U.S. journal The Atlantic. Its author was Nicholas Carr, a prominent blogger and one of the Internet’s more distinguished contrarians. “Over the past few years,” he writes, “I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going–so far as I can tell–but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think.” He feels this most strongly, he says, when he’s reading.

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