Technology of Words

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 The world is changing at every moment of time even though some may find a moment minuscule it is full of changes. In the article From Pencils to Pixels by Dennis Baron he speaks on how the changes of technology have changed the landscape of how the modern man becomes literate. For me It is much different from the author for I was born into this new world of technology and computers, so I didn’t see the rapid change that the world went through first hand but I do understand that these changes are happening. As I am typing this paper I am seeing the difference between the past and the present with how people are doing homework nowadays. I am currently writing this blog on a Toshiba laptop which comparing to twenty years ago it would most likely be written on a typewriter or written by hand. Even the way I am turning in this paper differs in a ridiculous way to thirty years ago where  no one would be able to imagine typing a paper on a “magical screen” then turning it in through a wireless transmitting method where anyone in the world can read what you wrote the moment you are finished writing it.

            The big advancement that this article was making was how big the advancement of the pencil was. It said how such a big advancement is cheap “pencil technology has advanced to the point where the ubiquitous no.2 wood-cased pencil can be manufactured for a unit cost of a few pennies”.This reminded me of a video i watched called I, Pencil. Pencils are pretty universal no matter what your economic standing is. But today you need to have money to use the technology that is popular today. I don’t know a single person who writes on a typewriter but there is no way that everyone I know can afford laptops or some sort of personal computer. Also for those people that do have computer but no internet the computer is about as useful as a typewriter except for the fact that you can delete and erase on a laptop and because of  that it has changed the way that people think when writing papers because making a decision isn't ever permanent.