"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

In this article Nicholas Carr explains how people are more in need of "right now," information without researching manually. He compares the web search as a hierarchy of other previous inventions that changed how people connected to words and knowledge. He concludes people are getting more dependent on quick fixes of immediate information instead of searching through written material.
This article on "Google," gives a better perception of how people have lost their ability to relax and "have a good read," in which the text is absorbed slowly into the brain and into our long term memory, instead of quick text notes that are read and soon shortly forgotten.