Is Google Making us Stupid?

There were some similarities in the article about Google, and the links between ones deterioration of their mental skills, and the article, The Internet Gets Inside Us.

While comparing both articles, both make similar assumptions about the way the general population reacts to the usage of the website Google.  Both exemplify how most people succumb  to the ads or pop ups placed by google.  Often most people wander off to other websites, straying from the original topic they've entered in the search engine.  Gopnik makes the correlation that students today, when faced with a task in hand, turn to the internet for guidance.  He uses the example of Hermioney and the iPad when having to research something in class as an assignment.  Although Gopnik does not see the internet as a threat, yet rather " a gift"  Carr thinks differently.  He accuses search engines such as google as a deterioration of the brain, to one day seize and take control of the human mind by becoming so advanced it takes over as he used an example from the movie 2001 a Space odyssey.  Although Gopnik does not share the exact ideals on the situation, he gave the example of how people are leaving their daily rituals such as dinner to full their needs with the internet. Although Gopnik and Carr shared somewhat similar accusations, Gopnik seemed rather lenient on the situation, rather paranoid, a bit too paranoid, on the situation.