Baron

What I found most interesting while reading this book was the history or the computer, and writing utensils. Their first purposes weren't for writing at all - and their transformation is unexpected. As an artist myself, I liked reading about he development of the pencil, and Henry David Thoreau's seemed obsession with creating the best pencil - which he did great lengths to do. Pencils found problems in the supply of graphite, and pure graphite at that. Thoreau enhanced the pencil's advancement as a technology through the changes and 'reinventions' he made of it. He was able to make the lead more pure and smooth, as well as stronger in form. Pencils are very specific, and varying when used in drawing and the advancements that they have made from conception to the variety today is huge, even if it is just a meek pencil. Computers weren't created for publishing and writing necessarily as much as it was for computing information, inputing information, and completing algorithms - but today computers are a main source of writing through our culture. This is mainly because many of the uses of a computer include communication - which almost requires writing on a computer (with the exception of audio recording) to other entities. Writing has taken over this technology.