J. David Bolter describes how the history of typography and printing relates to our current situation of writing on a computer screen. He even discusses how “changes in new media influence our concepts of reading and writing.” Bolter’s basic point is that the elements we see on the computer screen have been influenced greatly by previous, non-computer, imagery. Bolter’s comment that if any of the computer fonts were used in a book, readers would immediately notice that something was wrong, was interesting to me. I went and checked my bookshelf, and he is right; most books use a very basic font. I also thought it was interesting when he discussed moving pictures in text and how they have to be digitized to be used.
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