Old and New Technology
As new technology enables shifts in the way we deliver information, old technologies are broadened, not totally replaced. Even though many of us have computers at our disposal, we still use books, speech, and pen or pencil writing in education and the workplace. Marshall McLuhan said: "Older media ends up becoming the content of new ones" (73).
New technologies support and broaden current theories. Just as theory informs technology, theory is expanded and informed by developing technologies. As technical communicators, we have the opportunity to learn to harness the new technologies.
We shall
not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
