For this weeks article I chose Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew Kirschenbaum. His concerns are with how word processing has changed the labor of writing. By the labor of writing I mean the physical demands and what Kirschenbaum is noticing is how literary writers have embraced, resisted and interpreted that transformation. Kirschenbaum describes his bewilderment of various systems from programs designed to run on shared mainframe computers. “The conjoining word “word” with the word processing or processor has at various times been used to denote principles of office management. “(p.xi)
In the Preface he gives a relatable example of how word processing has changed from the time hes been introduce to technology and to now while writing this book on Microsoft word. I found that incredible.


