For all that technology is supposed to be destroying the newspaper business and the book publishing business, it’s surely putting the writing business severely under examination. Some laugh at kids who text acronyms rather than known words. But these kids are trying to deal with all of the issues that writing things down entails. You know, stuff like “What’s another word for cool?” and “Aw, this takes so long.” Yet a culture in which writing things down had almost become a lost nature has suddenly had to adjust to the notion that we are being judged—more than ever, perhaps—on our ability to express ourselves, charm, persuade, impress and even sympathize through cold, hard, joined-up words. How technology puts pressure on the written word | Technically Incorrect - CNET News (via infoneer-pulse)
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:07:28 +0000
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