"Get Smarter", Jamais Cascio

   In this article, Jamais Cascio is arguing his belief that people are actually getting smarter due to modern technology, as opposed to Carr's belief that technology is making us stupid. Cascio talks about the process of intelligence augmentation, which is the adaptation of people to modern technology as it gets faster and more advanced. He describes this process as almost a form of evolution. He also believes that the media is making us smarter, because it is giving us the ability to think quickly enough to suddenly change topics and stay highly focused on each topic.
   Jamais Cascio's belief that technology is making us smarter instead of less intelligent seems more plausible than the idea that it is making us stupid. Being able to change topics rapidly shows the speed of the mind, and that we are able to think through things quickly. If you look at people today, the people who have the most trouble with technology are older people. A child learns quickly, while an old man may never understand how to check a computer. This is because the child's brain is less developed and can "adapt" to the use of a computer, while an old person cannot easily adapt.
  Is this essay a direct response to "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"?