PDF Article #1 Troy Richardson ENGL 6401
I knew various combinations of ink and paper for around a few millennia with the discovery of the dead sea scrolls, but as Fischer wrote, 5,000 years (Fischer, 2011) was unimagined. Pen and paper persist for contemporary technical communicators, but new writing technologies have developed dramatically over the last two decades. Now, the latest tools always connect us to a network of spies, capturing our every move. Such as touch screen devices and smartphones that only rotate to the best camera position. What is next now we have widely available eye-tracking systems for usability research, marketing, inexpensive and expansive digital storage. I wonder if Technical Communication will replace crime fighters with a few digital Police. This 2015 publication in Technical Communication Quarterly inspires me to wonder if our prison population is steadily declining.