Is google making us stupid

Nicholas Car makes the claim "the internet promises to have particularly far-reaching effects on cognition." In saying this Car is claiming that the internet has more than a momentary surface effect on the way that we understand things. Car used a paper published in 1936 to back this up. The paper's idea was that you could program a computer to perform the functions of other devices. This article was written before the time of programmable computers and already these ideas were being thought of. But not surprisingly, as Car points out, the internet has become our map, clock, printing press, type-writter, calculator, telephone, radio and tv. Car uses this data to prove his point that the internet is scattering our attention and causing us to focus less. This in turn means we can not understand things as well as if we were to put our full attention on one thing.