I believe google doesnt make us stupid or not stupid, I think it's more of a question of do we choice. Media is manipulating us into using electronic medium and directing us to see what they want us to see and hear what they want us to hear. This doesnt give us much room to form our own thoughts because is distracts us with links and advertising. According to Nicholas Carr in the artical is google making usw stupid he writes "what the net wseems to be doing is chipping aware my capacity for concentration and contimplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the net distributes it." the essence of Carrs argument is that google is directing our opinions. From my perspective its more than just google but instead its the media driving google. An example of the media brainwashing us is we could choose to go to a book and look up infornmation but we dont do that, instead we go to the internet. We tend to get sucked in to choosing the media through gossipand products.

Another topic I would have liked to write more about would be be from the artical lazy eyes where Michael Agger discusses how we can get distracted byludic reading or pleasure reading. In his Article agger maintains that, "Ludic reading can be achieved on the web, but the environment works against you. read a nice sentance, get dinged by IM, never return to the story agian." This allows us to get small details of topics we find interestin by IMing our friends and reading small snipets of what we see in entertaining news.