U3 Argument: Is Google Making Us Stupid?

After reading the excerpt from Nicholas Carr's article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" published by The Atlantic in 2008, create a defensible thesis with 3-4 possible pieces of evidence based on the prompt below:

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In a 2008 article about the impact the internet is having on our ability to concentrate, author Nicholas Carr stated: "And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."
Write a defensible thesis statement that argues your position on the extent to which Carr’s claim about the effect of the internet on our concentration and sustained reading ability is valid.
In your response you should do the following:
• Respond to the prompt (including naming the author) with a thesis that presents a defensible position (at least one line of reasoning).
• Provide 3-4 pieces of evidence to support your line of reasoning.