When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is re-created in the Net's image

An article in the Atlantic recently asks "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

My immediate answer is a resounding NO. But the article does make a good point. Once I hit the bottom of the first page and noticed there were three more pages! I quit reading. I don't have time, and I get the point.

Okay - actually - after I did some other work I actually came back to it and started reading it again. The article makes several good points such as the history of the clock. How before the clock time was not something measurable, but felt, and the invention of the clock changed the way society thought about time. For instance, it allowed factory owners to more precisely and efficiently manage the operations of their factory. Hell, apparently Socrates even lamented the invention of writing because he thought it would create foretfulness and those who read would not have proper instruction.

So the question, "Is Google making us stupid?" It depends who's answering the question. An entrenched old-style literati from the 19th and early 20th century would certainly say yes. But when you ask me, an entrenched technophile of the late 20th early 21st century, I say it's just a new way of thinking - not a better or worse way. So... I've hit my three paragraph limit here. I don't expect anyone to read further than this.