from pencils to pixels

Dennis Baron is linguist who studied literacy. He wrote the article from pencils to pixels. The first thing he talked about in this article is computer and how it changed the whole world in the past fifteen years. When almost everybody started using computer in almost everything especially writing. He also pointed out how computer change his own writing technology “I found that I had become so used to composing virtual prose at the keyboard I could no longer draft anything coherent directly onto a piece of paper.” Baron said. Baron then discussed in the pencils to pixels article the Stages of literacy Technologies, humanists Technology, the technology of writing, what writing does differently, the penile as Technology, Thoreau and pencil technology and the computer and the pattern of literacy technology.

The most thing Baron discussed in his article is the development of the production of literacy technology. For example the pencil which is not different from that of the computer because of how at evolved through time and how it produced.

Baron’s focused in this article about the ideas of literacy technologies. The first thing is the discover of the new technology and the authentication. When there is a new product come out there is only few people be able to get at first. That mean the new product be available for only few people. When the product start be easy to get the public start to put at to use familiar thing. The last stage Baron pointed out is the authentication of the new product. Baron also describes writing as a technology in and of itself. Some say writing triggered a cognitive revolution and the invention of the printing press triggered a second cognitive revolution. There is no proof why writing was invented but we know that writing starts as a type of recording.

I think Baron’s Article is interesting because Baron viewed writing by hand as constricting. I understand where Baron is coming from in the sense during typing of keyboard is less of hand-writing. It was also interesting because it viewed writing as a product writing technologies.