Blog Post 10

Technology has been around for forever. Technology doesn't have to be digital or computerized. Technology can be as simple as a pencil or as complex as a computer. My definition of technology is the use of a tool to perform a specific function. So technology is the tool used to create everyday writing. Without technology we wouldn't have a written form of communication, only spoken words. We would have no books, papers, or ways of preserving information. The improvements in technology have increased the role technology plays in everyday writing. Now, we can write whenever and wherever we want as long as we have internet connection or service. I like the example they used about having to used to memorize phone numbers. We used to have to memorize phone numbers to be able to get in contact with someone. Now, with improved technology, all the contacts we want can be stored in our phones or devices for easy access to their numbers. Without the advances in technology a lot of what has been discovered, made, and invented would not have been. As we discussed last week, once somethings out there, one can "remix" it into whatever they like. Shirky explains that technology enables that, yet it doesn't cause them.