Thursday, 26 January 2012

WRITING MUST BE UNDERSTOOD AS TECHNOLOGY AND THEREFORE AS ARTIFICIAL


Since writing was created many people have used it to communicate, inform and build knowledge. As writing grew up more and more people start learning how to use it. So, we could consider writing as technology since technology, according to Random House Webster’s Dictionary, is “the practical application of knowledge”. We can think that this is not related to writing but if we go more deeply we can realized that this simple tool is really useful and a practical application of knowledge. Through writing we can easily learn, instructions we receive from book let us learn with no teachers beside us.
Therefore writing is artificial. Random House Webster’s Dictionary defines artificial as “produced by humans not by nature”. So, by definition writing as a human’s creation is artificial. But this artificial element has two main points that connect to technology since writing as artificial is a “practical application of knowledge” and also a new way of expression. Referring to these two main points we can talk about creative writing and academic writing. Creative writing allows people to feel and sense their world in a different way when reading. It also let us see our environment in a different way when we express it through a poem in a rhetoric way. Creative writing blows our minds and transports us to a world where everything is possible: imagination. Academic writing allows people and facilitates access to knowledge. It also preserves traditions and produces knowledge.
So, writing is a useful tool which as artificial people has created an old technology that looks as is not going to die, but changes every day as new technologies rise up.

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