Blog 13

Some questions that came to mind while reading are: What is the evidence that suggests that typing on a computer is worse than hand writing something in terms of retention? And did the production and sales of actual books decline significantly in the computer digital age?

The readings were objective in that they did not criticize the constant use of computers in today's age, but rather discussed the positive and negative aspects of the technology. For example, I agree with the fact that typing keystrokes is not as effective for retention as hand writing it because people don't need to think that much about what they type. There is a backspace button that simply removes whatever we don't want to write, but with pencil and paper, or even pen, the mistakes are physically harder to remove, and thus one must put more thought into what they communicate on paper. However, I disagree with the fact that typing something significantly decreases the quality of writing. I believe that with online dictionaries and tools to help with mechanics and sentence structure, that the writing should be less mechanically flawed and more readable. In addition, I also do believe that early word processors were tedious as explained by the Word Art section and that writing by hand was more beneficial. In the next section about trust, I also believe that computers are essentially destroying the privacy of spaces. Examples include facebook using personal data and it be stolen and other social media websites using our information to help advertisers track us.