Is Google Making Us Stupid?: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2008), by Nicholas Carr. Nicholas Carr (1959- )American technology writer. This article appeared in Atlantic Monthly. p. 1 1. What does Nicholas Carr notice about the act of reading in recent years? 2. For a writer, whats good about the internet? p. 2 3. What did the University College of London study find about the effects of the internet on reading and thinking? 4. What kind of reading does the internet encourage, and how could this change us for the worse? p. 3 5. According to Carr, what do critics of new communication technologieslike Plato and Hieronimo Squarciaficosometimes forget? 6. Still, according to Carr, what might be the cost of internet-influenced reading? 7. What does it mean to say that the content of the internet is turning us into pancake people? p. 4 8. What does it mean to say that our intelligence [] flattens into artificial intelligence?