Ok, so i'm gonna be completely honest and say that these articles put me to sleep...and it was hard for me to get anything out of them. But here is what i did come up with...
First of all, this whole conversation about change from "old-fashioned" reading and writing to digital reading and writing is really interesting. but i never thought about how the "old-fashioned" way was once the new way. when people first started writing, people were scared that they would lose their use of memory just like we (or I) am scared that with all the digital reading and writing we will lose the luxuries of real books and actual letter writing. but at some point it is likely that we will all be so conformed to the new way of doing things that we will not even notice what has faded out and what has taken its place. Even the pencil has gone through many upgrades...which i thought was kind of funny. Thoreau seemed to be so intent on keeping things the way they were that he began making his own pencils, but even he would have had to face reality and go with the flow considering one of the articles said it would cost someone like fifty dollars or something per pencil if they were to take that up as a hobby. So are we, meaning the ones that do not want the change that seems so inevitable, going to have to conform eventually, whether we want to or not?
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