Nicholas Carr's blockbuster essay on how the Internet is changing the way we think, now available in a Kindle edition. Originally published in The Atlantic magazine in 2008, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" set off a worldwide debate about the cognitive and cultural consequences of our infatuation with computers and online media. The essay served as the original inspiration for Carr's Pulitzer Prize-nominated book "The What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains." This edition of the essay includes an author's note on his sources.