Litt establishes a clear connection between literature and technology, with the former depending on the latter. For instance, technology facilitates the presentation of literature on screens and its distribution to the target audience through a medium, such as the internet. With the use of technology, literature travel does not take forever or becomes seasonally restricted as it did in the age of writers, such as Byron (Litt 2012). Furthermore, for a society to produce literature, they must be able to do more than barely support themselves, which is possible through technology. However, technology also has detrimental effects on the writing process as it presents several temptations, including trivia snippets, which can be distracting to writers (Litt 2012). Additionally, technology is causing writers to lose the classical prose, which is incompatible with the modern world.

How Technology Has Influenced our perception of Classical Literature

Technology has shaped how writers script plotlines but has not significantly altered classical literature’s perception. Restrictive distance and connectivity made some of the plots in classical literature plausible. However, they are arguably less plausible in the digital age and thus cannot be relatable or realistic in the current period. For instance, some popular classical stories relied on the communication gaps and travel barriers between the main characters (Litt 2012). While technology makes some of the plotlines seem impractical, it does not change their perception simply because the writers based these stories on when digital technology did not exist. Technology has existed for only a fraction of the entirety of history and can only change the perception of contemporary literature, but not of more classical ones. Social issues, such as social injustices and rights, are the primary drivers of today’s stories. Essentially, technology enables the target audience to be familiar with such issues and connects people to whom the issues are relevant. These rights can include contemporary issues, including gay rights and pornography, among others.

How Technology Is Disrupting Today’s and Future Stories

Essentially, technology avails more entertaining and encapsulating content that makes it harder for novels to distract readers fully. Therefore, today’s stories overlook their characters’ hyperconnectivity in the contemporary world to create a more thrilling plotline (Litt 2012). Ideally, today’s and the future stories will employ operative irony, which features idealized realities that differ from modern existence. For example, stories are increasingly including utopian and dystopian futures, which are relatively unlikely and disconnected from the current world while plausible. Moreover, some character and plot tropes have changed with technological advances, such as using teenage sidekicks and female heroes rather than damsels in distress. The integration of technology as weapons or tools makes it possible for some of these plots to be plausible.

How Reading on a Screen Affect Learning Comprehension

Reading on a screen can both negatively and positively affect one’s learning comprehension. Undoubtedly, reading on a screen facilitates effective understanding because it improves reader engagement and allows for easy portability in many cases, which allows for more reading and subsequently improved comprehension. Furthermore, reading on a screen enhances understanding because it is easier to annotate extensively and to access links that offer further information on the content. Moreover, reading on a screen can improve comprehension because of different customizations, such as preferred text size or even having the text read out loud. On the other hand, reading on screen can bring many distractions from other content available to the reader and thus hinder their learning comprehension. Besides, reading on screen can impede comprehension if it includes very condensed content or if one’s eyes strain quickly.

The author begins with the sentence, “Literature isn’t alien to technology, literature is technological to begin with.”. This quote illustrates the relationship between literature and technology. In order to make literature we need technology. This is the exact reason why in 1440 the first printing press was invented. It allowed, for the first time in history, books to be mass-produced and at a fraction of the cost of conventional printing methods. Literature was always dependent on technology, even more in today’s society where we get digital books, read articles online, grow rich in information online (researching for new information on the internet). Technology has affected, in addition, our perspective and understanding of classical literature and literature in general, as the author expressed by saying, “We write worse because we cannot write classical prose. Yet classical prose is useless for describing the world of 2012, the world that is there – ready to buzz – in your pocket or bag.”. Today’s generation cannot comprehend the style of classical writing, nor are they interested in understanding it. This is due because we live in a world full of easy-accessed information and people are only interested in having what they want fast and easily. It is a fast-driven society. If you cannot offer fast information people are not interested in you because the internet is there to answer a lot of their questions in no time. When receiving a task by a professor that includes finding a piece of information in an article, many people are only interested in reading the part of the assignment containing the information needed instead of reading all of the interred pieces. I don’t judge them because this is also due because we live in a fast-driven world as I said. However, this is no good because a step further can create chaos. As my old man says, “Difficult times create strong man, strong man create good times, good times create weak and lazy man, and weak and lazy man create bad times”. Technology can be good and bad at the same time. For example, in the film Wall-E, technology was so advanced that people lost their way of living. They were all fat and unwealthy, lying down on couches letting technology do everything for them. A world like that, wouldn’t go far. However, technology is very useful. Many diseases can be cured today because of technological advancements. In the future, many more would be cured, although new ones will arrive. Technology has been very helpful. I think it is safe to say that this new generation has learned more from the internet than in school. Listening to my parent’s education stories, they needed to go miles just to read a book or just to see if a library had it. Now, we just need to go online. Reading through a screen is very comfortable, however, I am scared to see technology making our lives even more comfortable. It would be quite shameful if we end up letting technology do everything for us and becoming so lazy that we become compatible with the fat society in the Wall-E movie. I believe we can make a limit in how much technology would help us because many jobs will be also replaced by technology which will make millions of people unemployed and millions of families in poverty.