AUDIENCE 1: a sixth-grade class’ social studies Website
New technologies are created many times because of military or industrial development. Advances in these five areas happen because there is more money being spent in these areas:
- civil engineering
- manufacturing
- information technology
- food production
- product distribution technologies
Technologies developed in one area of society help others areas. For example, Word processing technology was originally made for “information exchange” in the military and scientific projects. Now we use Word processing technology for educational purposes also. If we let “word processing” have a basic meaning such as the storage and display of letters and numbers, then we might even say that Word processing technology started from scientific and military ideas about language.
AUDIENCE 2: a general interest Website such as Wired or Digg where the main readers are technologically advanced
Technologies arrive often as a result of military or industrial development. Advances in: 1. civil engineering 2. manufacturing 3. information technology 4. food production and 5. product distribution technologies result from economic and political prioritization, which is to say, that is where the money is. Technologies developed in one sector of a society often benefit others through adaptation and extension of principles, infrastructure, and production resources. Word processing technology, for example, was developed originally not for literary or educational purposes, but for the purpose of “information exchange” in military and scientific projects. If we allow a broad definition of “word processing” to mean the general storage and display of alphanumeric characters on printout or video display, then we might even allow that the word storage and display technology proceeds from a set of scientific and military-industrial assumptions about the nature and uses of written language.
AUDIENCE 3: a Wikipedia entry, where the audience could be most anyone.
Technologies arrive often as a result of military or industrial development. Advances in such things as civil engineering, manufacturing, information technology, food production, and product distribution technologies are because of economic and political prioritization, aka, where the money is. New technologies developed often benefit many other areas of society. Trough adaptation and extension of principles, infrastructure, and production resources, one new technology can benefit many other areas. For example, Word processing technology was originally created for “information exchange” in the military and with scientific projects, not for its common literary or educational purposes today. When we allow a broad definition of “word processing” to mean the general storage and display of letters and numbers on a printout or screen, then we might even allow the word storage and display technology to have come from a set of scientific and military-industrial assumptions about written language.
