Is Google (Still) Making Us Stupid?

 Let me provoke some of your thinking with an article that is now a "classic,: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
As you read the article, think about these questions to provoke insightful comments in your next blog.

1.  How does the author describe changes in his attention span?
2. Do you relate to the experiences of Scott Karp or Bruce Friedman? How so?
3. How did the typewriter affect the writings of Nietzsche? Can you describe how specific technologies have altered your reading, writing, thinking in similar ways?
4. Authors Lewis Mumford and Joseph Weizenbaum both discuss a piece of technology that changed human life in incredible ways. What device was it? 
5. How has the Net changed other media, like TV, newspapers, etc.?
6. What do you think of Taylor's "system" and philosophy? Based on the info in the article, what do you think it would be like to work at Google?
7.  What was Socrates' fear about the invention of writing? Can you apply that concern to other technologies?
8. What does Richard Foreman see as the difference between the ideal human of his time and the ideal human of the digital age? Do you agree with him? What are the implications of such changes?
   

IF THIS ARTICLE WERE WRITTEN TODAY, (instead of in ancient times of 2008) - WHAT WORD WOULD YOU PUT IN PLACE OF "Google" IN THE TITLE?  Which technology, social media platform, device, program, etc. would you write about? Explain why you made this choice.