Baron

Baron

QFD&J:

2.  I believe that in this piece, Baron does shrug at technology but also sees it as a good thing replacing old methods, such as type writers. I think he implies that technologies increase people’s likelihood of becoming lazy, because he talks about how one day he did not know how to draft due to forgetting because he has become so used to typing. I agree that technology makes people “lazier” but I also believe that technologies help with efficiency and making it easier to communicate and write better papers.

4. Other than a pencil, other technologies which were once high technology are pens, highlighters, paper rubbers, etc. These are all writing tools and although they all basically do the same thing I believe even these types of technologies all has a step up from each other. For example the rubber was a step up from the pencil because it allowed people to erase mistakes and highlighters are a step up from pens because it allowed people to identify key points people were writing.

A&E:

3. Keeping records means that we can see changes we have made and also improvements we have made. This is a positive because if we ever need to go back and look as various stages things have gone through we can just look through old records. Not keeping records does not allow us to research and look up information but not keeping records can also help us forget mistakes we may have made in the past. On computers we may write pieces but not save them which mean these records become erased. Sometimes we do this without knowing when really we do want a record of our work.

MM: I think looking at writing is a positive, because everyone talks about how amazing technology is and how it can benefit us greatly. So if we talk about writing as a technology this allows people to have the same views on it. Also if we see writing as a technology it means we can keep developing it overtime and make changes to improve it. Personally I wouldn’t usually think of writing as a technology because there are not mechanical devices involved, I just have to do it myself and my brain still has to think about what to write, however if you break down other technologies there is always thinking involved from something which makes me think writing must also be a technology.