In his article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?," Nicholas Carr used a metaphor to suggest that ...

The answer to this question is ...

C:reliance on Google search has encouraged people to skim texts incited of reading the them more closely.

C: Reliance on Google search has encouraged people to skim texts incited of reading the them more closely.

Explanation:

The article talks about the writer's experience of having trouble to stay focus. He said this is becoming a common problem in his environment and that it takes much more effort than before to focus on the long pieces of text.

This is due to the high level of web usage - the internet provides us with the convenience of having the information come to us quickly, so we skim through the text and limit our focus.

He gives the example of a few people (like Bruce Friedman or Scott Karp) who lost the ability to read the longer pieces of writings due to over usage of the internet. They say they skim the pieces of writings that have more than a few paragraphs.

Technically, the author states, we read more, but not longer pieces of text, but rather shorter information in for of the text messages and comments.

Therefore the article argues that relying on the internet has made people more adapted to shorter texts and skimming then the throughout reading.