Journal 9

With the dawn of the 21st century we see a new age of technology and with it a new age of writing. Now almost everybody has access to write whether it be through your phone, computer, or tablet. This has increased our literate rate as now reading has become such a present factor in our everyday lives. Now, if we would like to know something we can just search it on our iPhone and an answer will be displayed to us almost immediately. Before we would have to possess actual pieces of writing such as magazines or newspapers, things that we would have to: print, retrieve, and most of the time buy. Now with technology, writing can now be so effectively circulated through the population that it has truly become an everyday thing. This has affected writing is several ways in some negative but mostly positive ways.
Now that the circulation and retrieving of everyday writing has become so easy, writing itself has evolved. Now when we write, we often build off of other peoples work. The chances that we were the first to write about a particular subject on the web is very slim given that almost everybody has the power to do it now. It sounds rather sad and unmeaning-full, but it does make for better writing. It allows for a sort of collaboration. Now writing has become not the invention of new ideas but the improvement of existing ones. Also, with writing becoming viral, the audience for your writing has vastly increased.