Is Google making us stupid?

1. When your born and what tools you have effects how people think and do; so does the author's generation (and any generation before his) only have this problem?
2. Do people really read on the internet? Or what we associate as the internet?
3. Does historical evidence have a place in this discussion? This is a "new" way of thinking/ reading, can you really connect it to the past?

People and how/when they grew up is becoming more and more relevant when it comes to "technology". Like my first question said "do people of different generations have this same problem"? Well I believe this question is very important and I do believe that the author tried to connect the past to the present but did not do a very good job. People grew up with very different forms of technology, what was impressive 50 years ago is now just garbage. So with that now in mind we can see that people build them selves around certain ways of thinking and problem solving, what my parents did and what I do are very different. Basically I believe that the brain builds its self in one way (and can rebuild its self and adapt to different situations) but when it goes to re build its self does the original wiring affect the new wiring?