As I read through readings something kept coming up throughout the weeks; electronic literature. This genre is a whole new form of how we might continue to do things. I believe that electronic literature will in the future completely eliminate written literature and everything will just be a click away.
The new argument I'd like to make, would be the libraries and any paper will cease to exist in the future. Not only for the "saving paper" movement, even though electricity uses and destroys natural resources as well at the moment, but for the easier access. I wouldn't even be surprised if later in the future all classes became online..
Which might actually be a better topic for me to discuss...I dunno please leave comments on what might be a more interesting topic!
anyways I think the electronic world is getting extremely interesting. I went from having no electronics besides easy calculators in elementary school, to starting to use the internet/websites for middle and high school classes, and now in college it is a lot more online class work and online class sites. I feel like this interesting thing of print text could be brought to a more specific argument of this...
These are all random thoughts...so ya...haha..
I am completely irritated right now because I just wrote an entire paragraph to your post and it deleted the whole thing because I wasn't signed in to wordpress.... Anyways what I had written before was basically saying that I understand your random thought process here because I too took the same approach to this blog post. I felt it was most natural to write about something that I had a lot of thoughts and questions about. But I would have loved to have read a more intense post about this topic because electronic literature is the main issue that we are facing on the electronic timeline. Where will print go is a question that most everyone is pondering. I see it in two ways, it will either completely disappear because everything will turn electronic, or it will stay where it is because there still are people and processes out there that may not function the same without printed materials. I personally have a hard time reading extensively and analyzing works online.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that the entire world will completely forgo paper all together, it is still an essential part of the work place and for security reasons. Hacking has become easier over the years, I'm sure you saw the hacker at WSU, but if the entirety of the world is online, then anyone can get at anything if they try hard enough. Books are one thing, but then how do you control copyright and misuse- see all of the problems they still have with online music. Also, having everything online poses a security problem. If we kept governmental secrets online it would only be an unknown amount of time before some hacker found them. Online information is hard to protect due the ever changing advancements of the web and the skilled people who use it.
ReplyDeleteWow, no paper in the future sure sounds like a daunting argument to support because you would have to include a lot of elements in your argument such as all of the ways that paper is currently used and what exactly would be used to replace such uses of paper. Take for example.. a child's coloring book. Will children still color in the future or will there be some other sort of similar entertainment for them? If you take it up a notch, what would become of artwork? Art supply companies would become moot if paper no longer existed, and I mean the big names like Crayola. Art is just one tiny aspect of how we use paper. So, if I were you I would narrow it down to something more specific, like maybe how paper will no longer be used in the future in just one of the ways that we currently use it, rather than all of them. :) But I think you can do it.
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