Just reading away
I found the second reading for this week very interesting especially the chapter titled “writing as a state of mind”. In this chapter Bolter, Jay David discusses how many people don’t see writing as a technology but in reality it is something that everyone learns to do but becomes accustomed to it so it seems like second nature to them rather than technological device. He uses learning to drive a car as an example as at first a car is this massive machine that you have to take control of but once you learn to drive and become comfortable, it just becomes ‘driving’.
“it is not possible to put away technology. Writing with pen and paper is no more natural, no less technological than writing at a computer screen”