But still the guy mentions internet and blames google

I think Carr is leveraging Google’s ubiquitous presence to forcefully convey his message. Think about it for just a second. What company is synonymous with Internet? What is the first name that comes to your mind when someone utters the word Internet? Internet… Search… Google!

Furthermore, did you read Eric’s (Schmidt) words in the article about artificial intelligence? I think the notion that intelligence is just amassing and indexing huge amounts of data seems rather simplistic. Therein lies the reason I agree with Carr:

“Still, their easy assumption that we’d all “be better off” if our brains were supplemented, or even replaced, by an artificial intelligence is unsettling. It suggests a belief that intelligence is the output of a mechanical process, a series of discrete steps that can be isolated, measured, and optimized. In Google’s world, the world we enter when we go online, there’s little place for the fuzziness of contemplation. Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed. The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive.”