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In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr states, “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after.” And further on, Carr says, “What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.” What Carr is explaining, is that technology has altered the way we receive and process information. The Web, which is the most popular source for people today, acts as an “artificial brain” and does all the work for us and when we find that one bit of information we need, we move on to the next thing. The Net breaks down information so it is easier and less time consuming for us to acquire. Convenience and immediacy is what we have learned to look for. The more we use the internet, the harder time we have acquiring information and remembering it. Also, we cannot concentrate on long or complex reading for a long time because we are so used to the less time consuming and less perplex style of reading. Now that we have somebody else learning the information and providing it for us on the Internet, we’ve almost lost the capability to study for ourselves, and really learn.