Is Google Making Us Stupid?

I think reading "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr has ruined any chance of me reading a book ever again. For a year or so I've been sort of subconsciously aware of this phenomenon taking place in my mind, I found it harder and harder to just sit and read for hours on end. Now that the article has brought this to my attention it's all I can think about. As interested as I was in the article, I couldn't bring myself to read the whole thing straight through, I had to stop and take a break a few pages before the end and write this down. Again, about a page from the end I stopped to get a drink, not so much because I was thirsty but because I was looking for something to do that wasn't reading.
On a more analytical note, I think the title of the article is a bit misleading. To me it's not so much that Google and its quest to streamline the way we access information is making us stupid, it's the internet itself and the culture surrounding the internet that's doing it. More than that, it's most modern forms of communication that are contributing to the phenomenon. Services like text messaging and Twitter that limit the number of characters we can send train us to be as brief as possible in our writing, and to expect everything we read to be equally as brief. But that's not the case with books, newspapers, and almost any other form of printed media. I definitely feel that growing up during this time period of web browsing and surfing I've been effected mentally. As I've grown up it's been harder and harder for me to concentrate on reading the more comfortable I've grown with the internet. At least now I know why.