Am I Getting Dumber?

"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicolas Carr unwraps a big problem in American society- the way in which we learn. Nicolas states before the internet was so widely used and accepted he would have to spend  days gathering information for a project but now with the internet this research takes only hours. This is due to a change in the way we learn. How often do we skim an article without even realizing we aren't really focusing deeply on the details? I know I personally do this a lot and it kind of scares me. Us Americans especially have so much information at our fingertips and yet we don't utilize this gift as much as we should. We skim the paragraphs, click an other link, skim that article, and repeat. Our brains now learn in little bits and pieces because we are constantly going back and forth between documents.

In addition to the quality with which we read and the way we learn, I think Nicolas should have touched on the quantity of material we should know but dont and google daily. By this I mean, I still have to google cooking conversion tables while I'm cooking even though I should have them remembered by heart. Because of the readily available materials we are less likely to remember things. This is because if we forget something we googled, we can always google it again.


Question: How many google searches do you search per day?