Does technology make us stupid?

Here is a link to an article about technolgogy making us stupid: http://chronicle.com/article/Is-Technology-Making-Your/66128/
. The responses are interesting.

Other articles on the subject: The laptop and the lecture: http://www.springerlink.com/content/41252460v7037172/

and Mind Over Matter
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/opinion/11Pinker.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22mind%20over%20mass%20media%22&st=cse