The Land of the Intelligently Lost

When I first read the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr, something really clicked in my head. So much of this article reflects on the current controversy about technology. Does all of the "easy access" to the world-wide internet really outweigh all the consequences? The one thing I noticed most about this piece that I would like to emphasize was that if we're reading more than we ever did. How are we becoming more "stupid"? We have so much knowledge in the palm of are hands, shouldn't we be the smartest era?  This made me truly analyze it to a further matter to where I had a hard time answering this myself. When students study or do homework, when the going gets tough, what do we do? Look it up on the internet. But when we're reading text are we truly and initially analyzing every piece to where we actually memorize it? The answer to this question is, no. Like in the article I think a majority of people partake in a different kind of learning when they're reading the millions of texts a day. Or reading Facebook pages, it's not exactly a learning process. A lot of students today really don't have a deep thought process on how to actually think for themselves. That's what worries me the most. If we just let machines learn everything for us, at the end of the day what will happen to you and your future?