Bolter- Karissa Gardella

Bolter in Chapter 2 talks about writing as technology. Bolter explains the first types of technologies that you can use to write which was the printing press, typewriter, and the Linotype machine. Technology really began developing after the letter press became known. Bolter states that, “The mechanization of writing began in the 15th century with the letter press itself, which was the first text processor” (14). Technology and writing go hand and hand. Technology has helped to enhance a persons writing in my opinion. With technology, you can find different words if you are too repetitive, or use spell check when that little red squiggly line pops up underneath a word. Bolter also informs readers that, “Writing with quill and parchment is a different skill from writing with a printing press, which in turn differs from writing with a computer” (18). This is important because in this sentence, it gives readers an idea of how far technology has come and how much technology has changed in writing. Before technology came about, people wrote on clay scribes or like mentioned earlier quill and parchment paper. Bolter also talks about the raw materials that people used to have to use to do things such as create a book. People had to use things like raw animal hides to create the bind of the books. I really liked this article because it gives an idea to how far technology has advanced within time. Everyone kind of forgets that a computer did not fall from the sky but had to be created by someone. People also forget that to create words, they had to use whatever natural resources they had around them. It is not like today where we have pens and computers everywhere.