From Pencils to Pixels

         In “From Pencils to Pixels” Dennis Baron does suggest that technology doesn’t change the shape and nature of writing, but he also states how important and useful technology is, “I will not join in the hyperbole of predictions about what the computer will or will not do for literacy, though I will be the first to praise computers” (WAW, 423). There are some points of Baron’s that I agree with and others I don’t agree with. Technology I believe doesn’t change the shape of writing, meaning that the ordinary structure of writing as a paragraph or an opening sentence always stays true. These are the backbone and the overall support to any literacy structure. On the other hand I disagree that it doesn’t change the nature of writing. Technology creates a totally different out-look on how to compose and edit literacy; we saw examples of this in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is constantly in the revision stage and is constantly having deletions and additions to any specific article. So in this sense of the matter technology does change the nature of writing but so far as the shape I don’t see any change or fluctuation in writing of years previous to ours.