Reading Response

In "Is Google Making Us Stupid" Nicholas Carr argues the point that in an era where information is as easy to obtain as typing words into a search engine, we have become incapable of focusing like we used to before computers became a household object.  Jamais Cascio argues the other view in "Get Smarter" that instead of Google and the Internet making us 'stupid' it is make us smarter.
Carr and Cascio both argue that our way of thinking is forever changing whether for 'getting smarter' or becoming 'stupid'.  It is true that in today's world the way people are thinking is always changing.  The older generations were used to going through libraries and card catalogs to find information on what they needed to know, but now we simply type in what we need to look up and Ta Da on our screen are thousands of different sources that have the exact answer that we need.
 Though I personally do not believe Google is making us 'stupid' I am able to see where Carr gets his idea for his side of the argument.  Instead of being able to research and truly read a source we merely skim and pick out what we want for our specific needs. Though I don't feel as if it is making us 'stupid', I feel it is making us lazy and dependent on a source that works all to well.  But I can also see Cascio's point of view as well.  I do not feel as if access to everything on the web is dumbing us down, but giving us a resource that has infinite ways of giving us what we need.  In a way it is making us smarter. We can look up random facts and from then on we know something we did not know before.  All in all, I agree with both articles and see them both as valid points of the same argument.