"From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies"

  I do agree that in Dennis Baron’s article “From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies” that he is shrugging at technology. In the conclusion Baron comments on the pencils being “…a natural way to write because they are old.” True this is a part of technology but I don’t understand how it is not a natural way of writing. How do you write without technology? Even in the days of the cavemen they had to come up with some sort of technology to be able to write. So I believe that writing and technology go hand in hand. Writing is technology so there is no need to shrug it because if you shrug technology, you shrug writing. Then Baron questions, “Whether the computer will one day be as taken for granted as the pencil is an intriguing question.” This to me is extremely interesting because I know that when I draft a paper I usually even outline my ideas on a word document instead of on paper. I think it is easier and I can type faster then I can write so it saves me time. As the future approaches it is hard to imagine what will come of the computer and Baron touches on that in the article. It is hard for a student of this time to even imagine writing without technology.