Literacy and Technology

I think that technology can’t exist without literacy. Literacy creates new technology. For example; how the computer became to be a computer. It started off as a code of 0s and 1s. And then literacy in mathematics, etc. created advance computer programming that leads to today’s computer. And after literacy create new technology, that new technology creates a new literacy. And then the literacy of that new technology can lead to creating another new technology. It is like an endless cycle of creation of literacy and technology.

While I think that new technology creates new literacy, I also think that at the same time it has a bad influence with old kinds of literacy. For example; since most of the time we type and print from a computer now, many Chinese language speakers are forgetting how to write Chinese characters by hand which is becoming a big issue, especially in Japan where they also use Chinese characters in their language.