Cyberculture and the Future of Print :: Technology Writing Technological Papers

The technology that is available to the public today is mind-blowing. In my aliveness alone, I have seen astounding technological progress from the home computer to the DVD player, to truly surreal medical breakthroughs. A new era is pickings hold of society. We are faster, better educated, richer, and livelonger. All of these things can be attributed to the technological advances that have occurred within the last fifty years. Thanks to the modern marvels of our time, we can assimilate big-screen quality movies in our own homes, brew an awesome cup of French espresso without leaving the kitchen, and cooler stillcommunicate with someone in China, without ever picking up the phone or using a pen.Although electronic mail (a.k.a. email) is mainly used, at least in societies perception, for quick (and therefore not dreadfully grand) conversations, I believe email has an important role precisely because it gets rid of the quick and unimportant details before face-to-face chat can nonplus place. Allowing the face-to-face communication to focus more on significant issues. Erin Karper, a graduate schoolchild at Purdue University, writes this about an interview she conducted with a fellow studentYes, I think email is important. I think that it allows us to prepare in advance for face-to-face meetings by allowing people to enter the conversation in a written mode, perhaps more carefully and well stated compared with the time-limited, real-time, face-to-face group discourse. So, what I am sayingI think email is important because it allows for pre-meeting communication that is of a different nature in terms of turn taking, temporality, and so forth. This different nature allows for more participation and more diverse modes of communication centering upon a given issue. I am not a knowledgeable user of technology nor can I even claim to be an efficient one, but some technology I admit I cant live without such as Microsoft word and, my best friend, emailt hough I use it for personal and educational correspondence not nearly as fancy as Erin and her colleagues. Im a interest person, and dont have time for face-to-face communication with my friends and family, and I definitely dont have the time to write and mail a letter. Email is an excellent alternative to face-to-face meetings, phone calls, and letters. I can describe important details of my day to people who mean the most to me, or I can update a classmate on upcoming assignments.