Chaptah 2, woo-hoo-hoo

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In Chapter 2 of Writing Space, Jay David Bolter takes a look at the technology of writing. This he does not limit to computers and typewriters, but expands to include writing itself. He says "Ancient and modern writing are technologies in the sense that they are methods for arranging verbal ideas in a visual space." by this he means that the earliest forns of writing are as much technologies as the most modern forms, because they are innovations to put down thought in a way that is not inherently natural or assumed. Later he goes on to say how the act of writing and reading changes the way we think into the forms of literature. We think in sentences if we are literate, he says, and this separates the educated from the uneducated. Of the literate, he says "They speak, as they write, in a variety of styles and levels [...] They write in their mind as well as on paper or at a keyboard; indeed, they are writing whenever they think or verbalize in that methodical way characterized by writing." the technology of writing has changed the way that out minds process and relay information.


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Cassandra Rose Blaise DeMarco