Internet smart?

"Even when I’m not working, I’m as likely as not to be foraging in the Web’s info-thickets’reading and writing e-mails, scanning headlines and blog posts, watching videos and listening to podcasts, or just tripping from link to link to link." As clearly stated by Nicholas Carr, the internet has really taken over our everyday activities and focuses. We have become dependent on the internet to the point that we cant go without trying to "google" something or trying to look something up on the internet, because we all know its faster, simpler, and easier. But does such dependency ultimately lead us to more knowledge or does it simply makes us stupid? In my opinion i believe the internet has made us unconscious to certain things, in a way this seems ironic because there is so much information on the net. But it makes us stupider, because we stop to look at things in a substantive manner. Instead of trying to dig below the surface of a book, an idea or a concept, we find ourselves barely skimming the surface on the web. as clearly stated by Carr, we simply scan over articles and don really even read the whole article, we solely look for a simple fact and then boom were off to another page or another article to skim. Moreover, i also believe the internet makes us stupid because we can at any time just look something up without having to work hard to find it out , and maybe such condition leads us to not think of stuff as being so important or truly giving them the attention they deserve. We have become dependent on websites such as sparknotes, and have lost the capability of reading a book for itself and understanding it in our own way, instead we rely on the internet's interpretation of such book and we fall into their type of thinking. "They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski." So what is the internet really doing to our brain, you decide for yourself?