Online information databases

One thing I love about the internet is its vast capacity for information databases on almost any topic whether it be academic, social, or political. It is so convenient to just find anything you want to know plus more nearly instantaneously. However I fear that there might be unanticipated blow back. Is this ease of information access making us stupid or lazy? Or both? Are we becoming a society that simply finds, retrieves, and repeats information rather than actually learning and understanding information? Are sites like Wikipedia assisting in turning our brains into mush? We actually might be becoming both smart and stupid simultaneously.