Jan 23

The first sentence of the article, “Visual and Verbal Modes..” I really felt was very true. Technology is not at all a causal phenomenon. To me it is something elite and took a lot of time and effort to create. It did not just happen over night. Later in the article they talk and compare different newspaper articles. This was also interesting to me. Language here has the role of expressing all the essential information while images are assumed to have the function of illustration or vise versa. I for one would much rather have pictures describe something rather than have to read the full explanation. I remember learning things in science classes like photosynthesis or other methods. With out pictures I think the methods or processes would have been more confusing. Design really is important. I agree with Mariann when she says that pictures speak a thousands words. Pictures can be understood from all parts of the universe. You cannot always translate a picture as you can with a sentence. Languages I feel are always changing and so is technology.