"Pencils to Pixels"

"Pencils to Pixels"

1. The author says that the computer is a gateway to literacy. Although, I don't truly believe that people necessarily have to use their computers for literacy.
2. Writing is an engineering of materials to accomplish an end.
3. Pencil is a technology because it is made through an engineering process to put our thoughts onto paper.
4. Plato believed that it would weaken the memories stored in our mind.
5. Written word can be more accurate because people tend to think before they write. But, they are not very interactive. On contrast, word that is spoken is active but not very deliberate.
6. Thoreau thought pencils are better than other technologies such as telegraph, because he thought those technologies are just illusions.So he devoted 10 years to improve pencil technologies.
7. Telephone combined the aspects of speaking and writing situations in new way. The introduction of the telephone for social communication required considerable adaptation of the way we talk. Just like the writing, communication using telephones emulated the facial expressions and gestures so it changed the way we communicate.
8.Although it was considered to be too difficult at first, people adapted to the technology and use it for their writing regularly.
9. The computer has changed the way we write, and therefore has changed the meaning of literacy. Also, the technology is still developing rapidly so it will change the literacy even more.
10. The author defines literacy as an ability to adjust to new technologies for writing in such a developing world.