Frying our brains one click at a time?!

Being that I am a double major in Professional Communications and Theatre, I have a respect for technology and the arts.  Many Theatre artsy fartsy people reject technology and suggest that it is ruining our basic art forms.  I agree and disagree to an extent.  I believe that she advances in technology are not necessarly butchering the form, but simply altering the way we do it.  Our thought process changes from pen to paper versus keyboard to screen.  This is even proven so in Nicholar Carr's article Is Google Making Us Stupid? In the article, Carr suggests that the way we research, write, read, and learn on the computer can alter our brains activity.  He says he often feels like "something has been tinkering with (his) brain.  He explains how society is dependant on search engines like Google for all of our questions.  We become dependant on websites like google to help us think.  We are slowly "'altering (our) mental habits'" and are becoming a society that skims rather than reads material.  This was even proven so with a published study of online research habits by the University College London.
  
"'It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense. '"
The University College London

Interesting enough, chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt, discusses his ideas of “The ultimate search engine."  He believes that eventually search engines will be "as smart as people—or smarter.” Lary Page
believes that "working on search is a way to work on artificial intelligence.” I believe that statment alone is scary enough to send me into ludditicy! The idea of altering our brains or "updating our brains software" does not sound humane or safe to me.  "Perhaps those who dismiss critics of the Internet as Luddites or nostalgists will be proved correct, and from our hyperactive, data-stoked minds will spring a golden age of intellectual discovery and universal wisdom."