Summary of Nicholas Carr "Is Google making us stupid?"

Nicholas Carr has written the essay "Is Google making us stupid?". In his essay he states that over the last few years he's had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with his brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming his memory. He states "My mind isn't going- so far as I can tell- but it's changing. Im not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when Im reading." His concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. "I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do." Carr has said of the deep reading that used to come so naturally has become a struggle. In carr's essay, Marshall McLuhan a media theorist had pointed out in the 1960's, that media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And 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. When Carr mentions his troubles of reading to his friends and acquaintances, They to are having similar experiences. The more they use the web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing. A recently published study of online research habits, conducted by scholars from University College London, Suggests that we may well be in the midst of a sea change in the way we read and think. They found that people using the sites exhibited "a form of skimming activity" hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they'd already visited. They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would "bounce" out to another site. Carr states that it almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense. And that the human brain is almost infinitely malleable. James Olds a professor of neuroscience at George Mason University, says "The brain, has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly,altering the way it functions." I feel like Carr's essay is stating things that are changing about our mental state when to much time is spent on the web. I dont think its so much as a problem as it is a warning sign for those who this issue is affecting. If something is happening to you that is changing your mind frame or thought process and you dont like it, why wouldnt you do something, or slow down on whats causing it?. Carr states that "My mind isnt going- so far as I can tell- but its changing." He goes on to say "Im not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when Im reading." Well if Carr and everyone else knows what is causing the problem, why dont they do something about it?. Unless they dont mind the affects the net has on them. For the kids growing up in this technological era, they kind of dont really have a choice in the matter. This is their generation and its what they know.