Mjasay writes "Is Google making us stupid? next a growing body of legwork* within neuroscience, Carr argues that as we use the web "we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies." This sounds great: Who wouldn't want to have the "recall" latitude of Google? But, as Carr writes: "The the net* promises to have particularly far-reaching effects on cognition....The Internet, an immeasurably potent reckoning system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It's attractive our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our auditor and our telephone, and our radio and TV. When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is recreated in the Net's image." In other words, as we "go online" in increasing numbers and to an increasing degree, are we losing our ability to think coherently and deeply, preferring instead to process byte-sized material quickly, regurgitate 140-character "tweets," and skim thought? Is the concern overblown or are we flattering the Web that we created?"

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