Is the Internet Making us Stupid?

Although, the article is titled with Google's name, the article isn't just about Google at all. It isn't even just about "sites like Google". The article tackles this increasingly pertinent question: Is the internet making us stupid? As all questions of this nature go, my answer is strictly based on opinion and my knowledge of today's society, however it would be hard pressed for anyone to prove this point one way or the other without valid scientific evidence.  

Is the internet making us stupid? To consider this question we must look at today's society, and how it is vastly different from that of our parents generation, and it is changing almost daily in many aspects. Technology is one of those. In our world technology is a rapidly changing field that we are expecting to keep up with. Literacy has a different meaning today than it had fifty years ago. Long ago when a person was literate, they could read. Not only is the definition slightly changed today, but now there are also different forms of literacy. In today's world, if a person is not technologically literate, that person is not considered well - rounded. 

I don't agree at all that the internet is making us stupid, on the contrary, I think that the sea of information we can access at our fingertips and the ability to do so makes us all the more intelligent. Sure, the internet is certainly changing the way we think about things, but what isn't. We as humans, have to change the way we think about things almost daily to continue our free existence. Also, like anything else, the use of the internet as a tool can go to far. It can make us too dependent on it's free luxury of knowledge or access to friends and family. However, when used on the basis of need (not almost constantly) the internet can be a friendly tool to help us gain a broader knowledge base whether it be about our friends or about the current state of the economy.