Is Google Making Us Stupid?

This article by Nicholas Carr was incredibly relevant and gave me a lot of interesting thoughts to ponder.
I was definitely raised up an Internet kid. It was always at my disposal, meeting whatever need I had: getting in contact with people, sharing photos and videos, hours of entertainment, and accessing any information I was in need of. It's incredibly hard to imagine my life without this amazing tool.
That's why I have to, for the most part, defend the Internet. I completely understand that the accessibility of the Internet has perhaps lead to a vast majority of us taking for granted the ease in which we achieve information, and that the short, to-the-point, efficient articles on the Web have left us with shortened attention spans, unable to completely immerse ourselves in prose.
However, the Internet is revolutionary. The amount of information we can intake is lightyears ahead of technology advancements passed. Not only can we receive info, we can output it, upping the television. You literally have the world in front of you when you sit down in front of a monitor and click that little icon. The world will never be the same.
Carr brings up many good points, and I too grieve with him about the loss of concentration we have toward great works. It is something we give up for an advancement... And perhaps it is not necessarily an 'advancement' per se, it is just a change. Instead of relying on the comparatively small information residing in our own brains and being able to engage in deep prose, we have easy access to a wealth of knowledge unlike any before.
I am grateful for the Internet and what it has brought to humans. As with every other technologic advancement, just as Carr describes in his article, it brings with it certain sacrifices of ideals we held before. I believe it is for the greater good, just as writing and printing were. We'll all see in time, of course. Unless we all turn into robot-controlled droids before then... Ha ha.