Creating a New Writing Technology :: Invention Writing Technology Papers

Creating a New Writing TechnologyWriting, in the unbending sense of the word, as has already been seen, was a very late development in human history. The first script, or true piece, that we know was developed among the Sumerians in Mesopotamia only around the year 3500 BC, less than 6,000 years ago. The alphabet, which was invented only once, so that every alphabet in the world derives directly or indirectly from the passkey Semitic alphabet, came into existence only around 1500 BC (Ong, 323). Writing has been around for a short time, but language has been around for as long as humans. Its amazing to see how much the written word controls our lives. You cant do anything go anywhere, without seeing some form of print. You turn on the television-an add pops up. You go outside-signs everywhere. And what is plane more amazing, constantly, new technologies are evolving to improve the way we write-computers, the pencil with an attached eraser. Because of the importance placed on writi ng and writing technology in todays ordination I have decided to conduct an experiment. What happens when the technology is taken out of the writing? I will attempt to create a new writing technology, with primitive objects, and use it to write a short, twenty word, text. While conducting this new experiment, a couple of issues posed problems. First, I could only use materials found in nature. This was difficult because of the rarity of natural items in this day-and-age. Second, I had to keep in mind the permanence of my project-how long the text I created could be expected to last. It was around difficult to do this because a particularly creative and natural invention might not be all that permanent, and vice-versa. With these creating problems for me, I didnt find the inventing process easy. I tested a variety of objects. Such as food, grass, dirt, leaves, and mud. The food was too messy, and it didnt last that long. I gathered several items from my kitchen, and decided to expe riment. I tried a banana peel, but it ripped easily, and turned completely brown within minutes. I soon exhausted ideas to use other foods, such as apples-they go destructive too quickly. Nuts-too fragile and cheese-not natural enough. From these experiments, I concluded that food items would not make good writing technologies. Grass seemed, at first to be an sensitive idea.