In this chapter author talks about Alan Turing and the machine that he built in the beginning of the 20th century, which was meant to be the modern day computer. The machine was limited by information, speed and time. Today this machine is what we call a computer, and through computer, the internet was born. Author also implies that in today’s world we take internet for granted, it is a tool with unlimited resources that can be used by anyone on the planet at any time. He also talks about other various technologies that have evolved over time, including videos, photographs and music, Alan Turing could not have anticipated that this universal machine just a few decades later would become a universal medium and that the price of a typical computing task would have “dropped by 99.9 percent since the 1960s”

In chapter five, Nicholas Carr talks about how evolution of computer and the internet world impacted our lives. He starts this paragraph by explaining how the computer was back in the days. Alan Turing is known for creator of the first computing device into this chapter. Carr provides historical content, surveys, opinion of the experts and compares the prices of computers in this chapter. He also shows how computer became a huge part of our everyday lives. At first computers were very expensive and had limited memory. Later on, digital computers became very cheap with infinite memory, and capable of doing various tasks at once. Beside digital computers, the internet became very popular.  People didn’t spend most of their days watching the TV, they spend more of their time on the internet. A survey in 2009 shows adults in America spend an average of twelve hours online in a week, double the average in 2005. Internet isn’t only changing the way people spend their time. Also it is reshaping the news world. The newspaper companies which includes the  Wall Street Journals and Los Angeles Tunes are changing their design and becoming more like web-based design. Also TV shows, movies, videos are trying fit it.

The Increased usage of the internet is shown to have taken attention away from other media, particularly print media. Actions such as watching a film, reading a book, and listening to music could all be done through a computer.  A point is made comparing printed media and the digital kind. The internet is pointed out to promote a more unfocused sense of concentration through the ease of access to massive amounts of different information.  Libraries in particular are stated to have become mainly used for internet access. Interactivity is pointed out as a notable factor in its popularity. Time spent on the internet notably did not decrease time spent watching television, that time was taken from other activities. Older media suffers from losing its readers to the internet, and is shown to attempt to adapt to the changing times through certain magazines and newspapers copying the brief article styles that are more common on the website. 

Dear Steve,

The Audion is responsible for being to forerunner for many of today’s electronic systems. The Audion was the first electronic audio amplifier, created by Lee de Frost. By adding a third wire to what was then known as a standard two-pole vacuum tube, which sent an electric current from one wire (the filament) to a second wire (the plate), de Frost turned what was essentially a diode, a component that allows electric current to pass in one direction, in to a triode, noticing that with the third wire added, it boosted the strength of the current within the diode system. The Audion enabled users to have precise control over the signals being  being transmitted, lending its properties heavily to the communications, entertainment and media industries. This control gave the ability to access long-distance wireless transmissions as well as allowing the transmission of telephone signals to be increased where people on opposites sides of the country were able to communicate. Unaware of the importance of this breakthrough, de Frost first described the use of his invention to amplify feeble electric currents, little did he know that the Audion would be integrated in to systems such as radio transmitters and receivers, hi-fi sets, in public address systems, guitar amps and much more.

Best,
Nigel Franklyn

Nicholas Carr talks about how technology has greatly surpassed its earlier expectations and its effects. As referenced by Alan Turning the man who laid out the blueprint for the modern computer, he believed that his machine would be the future but was discouraged by the speed of the machine as humans were able to render photos faster than computers at the time. The point is further demonstrated by the mention of the internet and how it has changed everything, as every type of information we could hope for is now online and the computer along with the internet has consumed all our media, from Pictures, MP3s, and Movies. The internet is a two way medium, as you can consume media but also create media for others to consume and enjoy. By 2009 the average adult spent more than 12 hours a week on the internet doubling from 2005. The increase use of computers and the internet has contributed to the declining attention spans. Many media companies from newspapers to TV shows and movies are chopping up their content to attract more people lower attention spans. Carr also brings in experts who state that the overuse of internet has changed how our brains are wired.

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.

This chapter is centered around one key point. Being that the internet has an almost limitless capability. Alan Turing was the inventor of the enigma machine and had believed this fact, and he was right. only a few decades after his death it became the “Universal Medium”. The world wide web began in the early 1960’s and every year after it’s creation doubled it’s traffic. First the web started taking over sound mediums. from radios and phonographs to streaming audio. Shortly after, it started also taking over  the video industry  via streaming services.  Then it’s capability exploded with the exponential factor of data sharing through social media.  according to this chapter, by 2009 an average American was spending 12 hours a week on the internet. double the average in 2005. The print medium is now at the lowest point of usage in it’s existence, yet still will probably never be obsolete. Old mediums stays relevant for a long time or indefinitely but usually fall out of  their economical and cultural force. Old mediums when converted into the net are not just conversions. They are their own entity in which the net tries to replicate. It makes them more accessible by making it fragmented and connected in other ways only the net can. The data we see is only going to continue to be accessible with the common use of cell phones.  The powerful mobile computers in our pockets is proof everyone carries, of the exponential nature of technology.

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                U can’t talk to Ur Professor like this by Molly Worthen states that informality has become the norm in colleges, students show less respect and professionalism towards educators by not addressing them properly, this behavior is dangerous …

The article “U Can’t Talk to Ur Professor Like This” by Molly Worthen is argent about that students send the sloppy email and casual or unofficial style things to the professors. For example, Professors  Mark Tomforde say that student’s email written like text message, Also, the research show in 2004, the 14 percent  and after 6 years the number had double to 33 percent. Professor Jackson Brown blames that students become like this because of the  unofficial style of the social media. Students say it is teachers’s job to teach students about of all that.

In the article “U Can’t Talk to Ur Professor Like This”, author Molly Worthen expresses the need for students to abide by proper communication etiquette between students and professors. She first begins to describe her struggle with easing from traditional formal courtesy, in her own words attempting to pass herself off as a cool professor. However, she soon realized that allowing informal behavior gave birth to a lot of poorly written emails and a general decline in respect for her title. The author then sites the experiences of other professors and describes the level of contention in whether or not to allow certain behavior from students. Finally, she describes that having these boundaries is essential to not only protect the professors, but to prepare students for real world expectations.