Response to "Is Google Makign us Stupid?"

I wasn't actually able to find the article in question on the AVT280's blog, but I have a response to this question.  I don't believe that Google would make a person any more or less stupid than using a wrench would.  Google is a tool that actually enhances human productivity and knowledge, it doesn't take any away.  One could have asked the same thing about libraries when they were first created and asked "Are libraries making us stupid?"

I suppose that the biggest issue about the information on google is that it's just handed to us, and that the normal person doesn't have to do much of any research on their own.  That's not a bad thing when the answers to a lot of your questions are found in the same, convenient place.  The one thing one would have to watch out for is invalid information on google, which is entirely plausible.  We just need to keep our senses of what is or isn't plausible about us, and google is pretty much just an upgraded form of a library, which don'e make people progress into stupidity in the least of ways.