Atlas Speaker Series: How has technology changed reading and literature?

http://classcapture.colorado.edu/Mediasite/Play/0eb1e2df64e0468095ce8500f8f06fbb1d?playFrom=238000

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum


'Track changes'

Historians and biographers, "slim pickings"
This is because of the word processor [changes in culture/lifestyle]

Computers become a tool...? They most certainly did.

WordStar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar

Digital whatnots put those using outdated systems at a disadvantage. Many people use longhand and the use a computer to revise/edit.

What would your eduction be like if we did not have Word and Spellcheck?