Is this blog making you stupid?

So, in preparation for our workshop later we've been told to read an article titled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Guy Billout.
Personally, articles like this one bore me. I always imagine them being written by some balding old man as he sits in the corner of a room, petrified of a computer. He argues that "what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation" - i.e, that it is becoming more difficult for people (or in other words, he and his friends) to concentrate on long articles, as the accessibility and immediacy of internet searches has made long periods of reading redundant, and this is somehow making us stupid.
I disagree - it may be making us lazy, but not stupid.
I have no problem with reading a long article; after all, I've just read through his - but if the internet makes it easier for me to find the information I need why should I have to trawl through all the unnecessary bits?
I, myself, have been brought up in the age of computers, aka the digital age, and in no way consider myself to be stupid - quite the opposite, actually. I've spent my life reading books and immersing myself in them. I read the daily newspapers, I occasionally like to peruse the odd web article and have spent hours "learning" from the internet about things I would have never been able to before computers existed. Google is essentially a 'Tardis' for books and learning; from a small computer screen I can access thousands - millions - of articles, blogs, art, film, etc. and find out anything to do with anything I've ever been curious about.
What does engage me is the style of an article. I have no problem with "big words" but I do like an article to be accessible. Sometimes writers need to be aware that "big words" can become simply jargon after a few paragraphs and a lot of writers tend to overcomplicate their points with unnecessary language.
I did agree on one thing, however; we are constantly distracted, i.e, by email, etc. As I read that article I received about 5 different emails and 7 text messages and had to keep adjusting my concentration. In saying this, though, when it comes down to the really important stuff, like writing an assignment for uni, I put my phone on silent and turn off all email alerts, telling people I will be busy for the rest of the day. It really isn't that difficult and true friends will obviously understand.
The author of this article is every bit the "worrywart" he suggests he might be. Not all of us are suffering from reduced concentration. I, for one, spent hours reading this weekend in preparation for English class and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Too many people sit and worry about the negative effects of this and the negative effects of that and rarely ever consider the positive effects of having a gigantic medium for learning right in our very homes.