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  1. Feb 2024
    1. What Taylor did for the work of thehand, Google is doing for the work of the mind.

      nice comparison!

    2. I’ve lost the ability to do that. Evena blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it.”

      there's always a temptation on summarize a long text with AI

    3. nce I was a scubadiver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski

      similarity

    1. So threatening was the typewriter to the traditional literacies that in 1938 the New York Times editorialized against the machine that depersonalized writing

      I'm also wondering were they writing newspapers by hand?? How did they look like?

    2. Now, the influence of computers on more and more aspects of our existence has led futurologists to proclaim that another technological threshold is at hand

      I was just thinking on reading this essay that I'm glad I waited until now to attend university because I could have joined 9 years ago after high school but the learning process would have not been so much technologised and I'm glad that it is now because I fount it very helpfull

    3. The development of the pencil is also a paradigm of the development of literacy.

      It seems somewhat hypocritical from Ted Kaczynski's perspective to vehemently oppose modern technology, just as the pencil undoubtedly brought about literacy, so too would modern technology applied to communication bring further advancement to society.

    4. computer communications today involves their authentication, and their potential for fraud.

      sometimes we don't know if we're even talking to a human or a robot.

    5. it from supporters of what are purported to be older, simpler, better, or more honest ways of writing.

      with the ability of easily spread personal opinion on the web, or even when it's done outside the web, lot of people with little knowledge of that particulat technology still giving their feedback or opinion, often bringing even more confusion because you read a lot of comments but can't really tell who has the knowledge or not to do so. Previously comments where mainly made through magazines or newspaper by people who can anderstand that particular literacy.

    6. physical effort of handwriting, crossing out, revising, cutting and pasting

      It happened to me that I decided to write somwthing by hand and it actually hurt because I wasn't use to write by hand anymore. Does it happens only to me?

    7. It happened to me that I decided to write somwthing by hand and it actually hurt because I wasn't use to write by hand anymore. Does it happens only to me?

    8. It happened to me that one day I decided to write something by hand and my hand actually hurt because I wasn't use to write by hand anymore' does this happens only to me ?

    1. New Literacy Studies, a body of work that argues that reading and writingshould be viewed not only as mental achievements going on inside people’sheads but also as social and cultural practices with economic, historical, andpolitical implications

      New Literacy Studies view of reading and writing

    2. I was born in 1948. So, for heaven’s sake, what I am doingplaying video games and, worse yet, writing about it?

      Interesting how the writer comes up with a general thought that people after a certain age don't play videogames

    3. Different people can read the world differently just as they can readdifferent types of texts differently

      the fact of reading the world differently is conditioned by people's background, education, and experiences.