making us dumberer

It seems the rite of passage for every single new medium to be blamed for the great decline of intelligence, culture, whatever. And while the internet has certainly been blamed for this kind of stuff in the past, there's an interesting debate over on Slashdot about an article about a book that claims that Google makes you stupid. Follow all the links, and then experiment by inserting "Wikipedia," "video games," "television," or create your own!