Carr makes a very good point. It is true that people are so used to having everything in front of them in five seconds. If it takes seven seconds forget about it! After seven seconds the person most likely exited out of their browser and has turned to their cell phones with Internet on it in search of the answer. Google has become a modern day convenience and possibly a necessity. I don't know what those kids in Chemistry would do if they didn't have their phones with Internet! Maybe they would have actually missed a question. I don't necessarily think that Google makes us stupid. I think that there are several components to why people have trouble concentrating. When you are on the internet you recieve emails and chats, you also have music playing while you are reading an article about Lindsay Lohan's most recent drug bust while on the next tab there is Facebook and on the next one is some website that is used to download free music. Life is great, we can talk to friends that are in another country while we do our homework, discover new music, get free songs, read some e-mails from colleges and Google ourselves. Twenty years ago people actually had to go to the library to check out a book. Now we can get books shipped from a library in Braintree to the Milton Library and we can do it all online! If we want to, we can have this done while we are out to dinner with friends all from our 4x2 phones. Carr says "Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words, now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski". I think that Google and other search engines do have an effect on the brain but I don't think that it effects the use of words or the vocabulary. If I don't understand a word I type it into google and I have the definition right there. If Google does anything it has given me more words to use in my everyday vocabulary. When Carr said that his friend Scott Karp has stopped reading books altogether he means that this is the effect of the internet. I disagree because recently I spent $60.00 on books at the book store. I love to go into a book store with my dad and get a coffee as we browse the aisles in search of a good read. The internet helps me decide which books to read because I can type in a book and it will tell me what other books people purchased along with the book I searched. I can click on those and read a brief overview of the book and I can decide if it sounds interesting. If it does, I can see how many star the book's average rating is along with comments from people that have read this book and comments from the New York Times and things like that. In fact the internet has increased my interest in books and reading. I assume you readers are losing interest in what I'm ranting about so I will end this in order to get some sleep and finish up some homework.