I found this weeks reading interesting in the way that they depicted writing as a technology.  The pen and paper are technologies in themselves that have been developed over time, from ancient worlds where people drew on cave walls to tell stories and used symbols to record history, the computer and keyboard we use today is a development in writing technology.

The readings used an example which stated that people see pens as an extension of there limbs, writing is something that we are taught to do from an early age and so it just becomes second nature.  I think that this is very true and why we fail to recognise writing as a technology.  However with the development in writing technologies I think it has also changed the way that people read and receive information.  People use to go out and buy a physical news paper, students use to research for essays in the library.  Now information need not even be printed into physical form.  People just type what they are looking for into search engines and news off of the news company websites.