Is Google Making Us Stupid?

The first time I read this article, someone sent me an email and I got distracted after about, the fourth paragraph.

-Sigh- He's right... but what's the alternative? Even when I read it this Sunday, the TV was on and I was talking to my boyfriend.

Is Google Making Us Stupid?: "'Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial brain. “Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says, forlornly. “I can feel it. I can feel it.”

I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory."