"I think I know what's going on"

The article assigned for us to pick apart is entitled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr. His entire article (strange as this may seem) revolves around the idea that online search engines, namely Google, are indeed making us dumber than we once were. According to him this is all due to the fact of how search engines constantly feed us information and show us countless amounts of links to other websites. "I think I know what's going on. For more than a decade now, I've been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet", could Carr be anymore clearer in how he is blaming the internet for this problem?! The point that he is trying to make is that google is lowering our attention spans. By showing giving us outlets to different websites at the click of a button our minds have become more accustomed to a fast paced world, one in which if we are not satisfied in a matter of minutes with what we are doing, we give up and move on to something else. "Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of word. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski." Carr knows that he no longer has to focus and search for hours on end because google allow us to go from "link to link to link" to find what we are looking for. According to him our minds no longer have the mental capacity to sit down and focus for extended periods of time. We have almost evolved into this mind of an "Idiot Savant" one who cannot seem to focus for long without going crazy and often at times runs through his fast paced world, google, in search of that great answer he has been longing for before finding it and falling on the number "5" planted on the floor. Sifting through the books in a library has no longer become unnecessary, but primitive. In a matter of minutes I can pull up every article on the internet that I would need in order to write a report, where as in a library it could take day for me to do. "A few google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I've got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after", writes Carr. He knows that while google may be making us dumber, it is extremely beneficial to writers.
Along with this belief that the internet is slowing us down by speeding us up......?, he also believes that technology in itself has constantly had a damper on writers for quite some time now. He mentions how Frederick Nietzsche's writing had begin to change once he started using a typewriter. He "changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style", wrote Friedrich A. Kittler a German media scholar. This goes along with the ideas that technology changes us and how we do things. Even Nietzsche agreed that "our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." Sad as it is, we rely on technology for so much that we actually change ourselves for technology, shouldnt it be the other way around?
One thing that Nicholas Carr does assume which I can disagree with is that everyone has the Internet readily available to them. Not everyone in the world has the Internet even though it is 2010. This would alter his claim against google by that it needs to be more specific in stating who exactly is becoming dumber, the world or the users of google?