unlecture #5: Notion of Writing

Writing is a skill that is required to learn to read and write. Writing also could be a technology to help people note things and produce things. In terms of the readings on week 5, I obtained a new understanding for notion of writing. Writing unconsciously enhances the human capacity of social organisation.

Writing became a technology since the born of print-press in fifteenth century. The invention of typography make writing change to duplicating technology. Marshall McLuhan realised that the typography provide the first uniformly repeatable  commodity, the first assemble-line, and the  first mass-production. As the time went by, the technology of printing developed to be acceptable for people. The mechanical printing improve the visual character of the written paper, inducing the writing space technically cleaner and clearer.

The word technology in Greek is techne that could refer an art or a craft system,or method of making or doing, or the fine arts. Going past to ancient, the craftmen has to learn a skill and use a machine. The technology is a combination of skills as well as machine. A technology always tends to internalize users, becoming a natural ability. Writing is as well. Some great speaker enable speaking as the way they write. For that kind of people, writing is speaking, they thinks as writing so they understood, in what specific way, to talk with their capacity of writing. Writing as technology can be handled, known.

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