Is Google making us stupid?

This morning as I was sitting down at the breakfast table and layed out in front of me was the 'Neurological Foundation of New Zealand's News letter, and the headlining article was exactly this, 'Is Google making us stupid?'
The article is based around a review of an article of the same name written by Nicolas Carr two years ago, talking about the effects of the Internet on our brains, being a Neurological magazine it is focused on the physical affects.
Well according to the article the jury is out. Some claim we are now super human since we don't have to memorize trivial stuff therefore allowing us to use our brain for some other higher powers. Others stress that the internet is turning us into lazy couch potatoes with short attention spans.
However Colin Blakemore, a neurobiologist from the University of Oxford points out that these scholars who say that we are going to regress are only referring to the uneducated masses and that they don't mind taking advantage of the benefits that the internet has had on their own research. (Kind of like a double standard I have learned to accept from the educational elite...)
According to this article being literate changes the way our brain works, so why then couldn't knowing how to work a computer for internet surfing too have an affect? As we use different parts of our brains differently it changes the default connections. Naomi Alderman adds that this difference between what we know and what we choose to do with this knowledge is what makes us human.
I love how she puts it. 'Time was when we didn't need to be reminded to read. Well, time was when we didn't need to be encouraged to cook. That time's gone. None the less, cook. And read. We can decide to change our own brains - that's the most astonishing thing of all." My default these days tends to be browsing the internet, but I am going to take the advice of Alderman and go read a book.