I do believe that Google is making us more dependent on technology and not ourselves. Sure we can look up hundreds of thousands of things on Google but are we really thinking? Are we progressing mentally? If Google is making us more dependent on Google itself instead of our own reasoning and education then it is making us stupid. It is true, people choose to be stupid because they don't want to learn or become smarter but Google is not the only way to learn. Like I said, you can learn tons of things through Google, but if instead on learning from Google you simply rely on answers from it then you are not getting smarter, you become more dependent on it than on your brain and education. Read a book, write, pick an instrument up and try, observe others do what it is you want to learn to do. You can become smarter like this because you are actually learning something, you aren't simply asking a question and given an answer like Google does. Once again, it all depends on HOW you use Google. You can use it to learn and become smarter, or you can use it to become really dependent on it all the time and not learn a thing.

I think to some extent yes it is. We have become lazy if you want to find something out you automatically turn to Google, even if its just the basic spelling for something. Its quick and easy and you don't really need use you own knowledge with it because all of the answers are in front of you, rather than trying to work it out yourself.

Please don't get me wrong I probably couldn't live with out Google, I wouldn't of even made it past secondary with out it. I wouldn't say stupid but defiantly more lazy.