Is Google Making Us Stupid? It's A Complicated—Hey, Look What's On Drudge!

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Posted on Oct 27, 2008 @ 04:07PM  
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It's not yet available online, but the current issue of The Atlantic (The Ideas Issue!) offers the provocative cover question "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Writer Nicholas Carr worries that the tremendous amount of information made available on the Web—and the ease with which search engines like Google and Yahoo make that information obtainable—is somehow rewiring the way we read, process, and understand things. Carr takes note of a recent study of online research habits:

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