Summary of Chapter Five

Carr shows Turning’s idea of a machine that have unlimited potential for any purpose, and it also changes the human’s life. It causes pushing and developing the Internet which is the web’s evolution offers a compressed history of media because the Internet as a force for making the old technologies absorb. Also Carr points out that the difference of between the Net and other mass media is that the channel of communication goes both ways. In other words, the net can absorb any type of media, and it provides things that media in their original form could not which is bi-directionality. At last, Carr also tells the net also is a platform for personal interaction which causes our lives to change. we would spend more and more time using it according to A 2009 study that reported adults were spending an average of twelve hours online a week, not counting time on handheld phones. In addition, Carr  warns us, the net use is being taken from leisure time otherwise devoted to TV.

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