After reading both articles, I was quite amazed by the "10 Reading Revolution Before E-Books" and how it compared to the Ong article. When first reading Ong's article, I was a bit confused when he says "writing has transformed human consciousness". The way one expresses is considered an invention, according to Ong. When applying Ong's work to the reading revolution, I was most interested in parts 7&8 of the article, mainly because it was the transformation of writing and how it was being applied to electronics.
The following sentence really caught my attention: "The development and expansion of computing, too, introduced a few powerful wrinkles, like the conversion of alphanumeric text to binary languages, text written to be "read" by computers rather than humans, and greatly increasing the amount of reading and writing we perform on screens." This is becoming increasingly true when talking about how writing is used in the technology world.
The human consciousness will forever be changed by writing. Everyday we are changing the way people are able to "write", whether it be on a computer or iphone, writing or "communicating" will always evolve.
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A good thought to start; go for more depth with these and discuss rather than just report what you thought was interesting...tell us why (in more detail) it was interesting!
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree that writing in the technology world has a lot of human consciousness. There is a lot a person has to think about when trying to write something that a computer has to read. Then again, I think it is that way with all aspects of writing. There is always a proper way of writing something when it has to do with a specific purpose.
ReplyDeleteI would also like to point out that anything that before a computer can read it a person must write it and when a computer reads and in turn converts to text a human then reads, so it's sorta a cycle.
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