How the Internet Has Changed Writing

May 01, 2010

This paper surveys the various impacts that the internet has had on the quality of written content and offers insights into the future of how we go beyond a written culture to a culture of rich, interactive, multimedia. As large technology companies race to stockpile as much content online as possible, the world of writers and readers is at a serious loss of organization. The over-arching method of organizing trillions of pages of data is through natural language search, which, though useful and powerful, doesn’t provide any methods for measuring credibility. The way we research, read and write is changing at an astonishing rate. Yet, easy access to information will prevail and enable humans to evolve beyond any current standards of literacy.

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