Abstract for Is Google Making us Stupid?

There's a reason that today's generations are finding it increasingly difficult to concentrate on a task. Today's school children do not even know what it is like to be able to concentrate in class. Nicholas Carr's article, Is Google Making us Stupid? asserts that due to the vastness and speed of technology today, the way people think and make discoveries is changing. Thanks to such innovations as Google, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, and CNN.Com, the word patience is a thing of the past. Information can be found at the snap of a finger. Even twitter is causing people to lose their ability to concentrate because instead of reading a newspaper article, they can find out exactly what is going on through quick 140 character tweets. The question remains whether it is fair to call the people who have adapted to this phenomenon 'stupid'. Why does quick, easy, and simple mean the same thing as 'stupid'? There's no point in spending hours in the library on research when the same information can be found so quickly.