Baron starts out this article talking about how much technology we have , and how much we dis-value it. Especially when it comes to writing. He criticizes people for criticizing the new technology we use for writing. He finds that some of the stuff we are using is incredible. And he is right! This article was published in 1999, so just imagine the even further advances we have made in technology, that can also be used for writing, that Baron did not even know about.
He starts going through the history, or should I say, "evolution" of writing. He starts by going through the history of actual, physical writing. Like ink to bark. Pencil to paper. Pen to parchment. Whatever floats your boat. Then it goes to type writers. All of those endless hours of clicking, and one mistake and you are completely screwed. Convenient, yet not so convenient. Does that make sense? Then we move to computers. I can imagine that computers back in 1999 is not like what we are typing on today. Fundamentally? Yes. Quickness and ability to print, email, and edit with ease? Not so much. So skip a few steps and we are at today's computers. Yay!
Now he is talking about how even back in the golden days of epic literature, people thought writers were weirdo's back then too. Now, I am not saying they are weirdo's now-a-days but society seems to label people who write for fun, kind of odd. And after taking this writing class, I would have to agree. Then he moves on to how we are establishing writing. We are not just at nut cases, writing screen plays, about two fourteen year old's, falling in love, and them killing themselves after only like, 2 days of knowing each other. We are at full fledged articles, journals, interviews, research papers, novels, screenplays, informational books, etc. I could go on forever, and I think that is the point that Baron is trying to get across. We may be crossing roads with new technologies and new way to do things, but writing , no matter how it is done, will be a forever thing.
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