Nicholas Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

• Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
• Carr's blog page and his wikipedia page
• Videos of Carr explaining his arguments: 1) video interview with Canadian host Steve Paikin ("Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?" 16 minutes)
  The Harvard Book Store presents Nicholas Carr: The Shallows - What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (49 mins)
  Presentation at  the Commonwealth Club of California, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (60 minutes - you can select "chapters" from the talk)
•  Nicholas Carr & Stephen Fry on The Effects of Web Culture (9 minutes) 

 

Responses, Extensions & Challenges to Carr

• Encyclopedia Britannica hosted a forum on Carr's text. Many prominent writers responded with some short, lively posts. Here, for example,  
  is Clay Shirky's "Why Abundance is Good: A Reply to Nick Carr." 
• Shirky, "Does The Internet Make You Smarter?" 
• Pinker, "Mind Over Mass Media" (html) and also as a pdf.