Post by account_disabled on Dec 20, 2023 7:01:12 GMT
InstrumentsIf I make a comparison between nineteenth-century writers, without going too far, and those after the Second World War, I cannot help but recognize a significant advantage of the latter over the former. There is no longer paper, pen and inkwell, which made writing slow, but only pen and paper. And if I compare these latest writers with those of the 1960s, the advantage of the latter, with the advent of the typewriter, is even greater. Not only is writing faster, but it also gives you an overview of the printed page.
A few decades later the information revolution made that Special Data advantage unsurpassable. The computer has reduced the costs of writing, no more paper to be replaced every time you get a word wrong, no more ink ribbons, the same yield, if not greater, of the appearance of the sheet as if it were printed. Information technology, however, has introduced other tools that have made the modern writer more autonomous, informed - pun aside - independent, known. Through his website the writer has a constant presence.
With social media he can have a dialogue with readers, spread his initiatives, explore other literary environments. The use of the web has offered today's writer all the tools to emerge. I wonder, for example, how Edgar Allan Poe's life might have changed if he had had the internet in his time. What Manzoni would have done. And the list goes on almost endlessly. The fortune of modern writers is evident and irrefutable. They have something at their disposal that their predecessors did not have. Information is free and at your fingertips. Information without limits.
A few decades later the information revolution made that Special Data advantage unsurpassable. The computer has reduced the costs of writing, no more paper to be replaced every time you get a word wrong, no more ink ribbons, the same yield, if not greater, of the appearance of the sheet as if it were printed. Information technology, however, has introduced other tools that have made the modern writer more autonomous, informed - pun aside - independent, known. Through his website the writer has a constant presence.
With social media he can have a dialogue with readers, spread his initiatives, explore other literary environments. The use of the web has offered today's writer all the tools to emerge. I wonder, for example, how Edgar Allan Poe's life might have changed if he had had the internet in his time. What Manzoni would have done. And the list goes on almost endlessly. The fortune of modern writers is evident and irrefutable. They have something at their disposal that their predecessors did not have. Information is free and at your fingertips. Information without limits.