In the peer review about chapter 7, the summary that I made was good but had a lot of facts and went a bit over the 350 words. I learned that there are certain things that could be left out of my summary to make it more straight to the point rather than lots of facts.

This chapter is exploring the first know computer that was created by Alan Turing. The idea was to create a computer that can be programmed to do any task that you would like it to perform. Nicholas Carr main point in this chapter was to show how the internet is affecting the way people read text on a computer screen vs. a newspaper.  One of the limiting factors of computers in the past was speed. What made computers as fast as we know them now was the web.The price drop of memory and bandwidth made it possible to add photos and videos to the web because in the early days of the web, the first websites were only text. People are spending more and more time on the web then every before, according to a study done in 2009 that showed that Americans were spending an average of 12 hours a week online which is doubled compared to 2005. People are not reading newspapers on printed text and spending more time online reading the news which is making newspapers obsolete. Research shows that  reading is not only visual but also tactile. So holding a piece of paper is more tactile then reading for a computer screen.

The message of this paper is to explain to the reader that educators should be treated with
respect and called by their last name, doctor or professor and not by their first name. Also if you
are contacting your professor by email you must use the same level of respect in writing as in
person. The author Worthen supports this thesis by using multiple examples from professionals and professors. A research done by sociologists who conducted a survey on undergraduate
syllabuses from 2004-2010 found that in 2004 14 percent of students conveyed issues related to
classroom etiquette. In 2010 the number rose to 33 percent which is more than double. A
historian by the name John Kasson said that “formal etiquette was not aimed at ensuring respect for all” which means that it was meant to employ codes of behavior which will benefit society as a whole. Anna Lewis was in a Ph.D. Program in English and left to go work for a technology company. She noticed the amount of informality in the company like calling a CEO by his first name, this can mislead young graduates into thinks that this is ok, where in fact you must act professional in order to succeed in the company.