Bolter's article addressed an idea that is very upcoming and prevalent to what many of us in WEPO are looking for in a career. The movement of text from only being esteemed when in print, to the chance of it in the near future only being viewed as a digital media, is an enormous possibility. Bolter was very aware of this, as he stated "Electronic technology provides a range of new possibilities, whereas the possibilities of print seem to have been played out."
Bolter also categorized the age of our society today as the "late age of print". He made sure that readers knew that when he referred to the latter, he wanted them to view "the late age of print, as a transformation of our social and cultural attitudes toward, and uses of, this familiar technology...". This doesn't necessarily mean that the use and esteemed quality of printed publications will die out, but just that we have a new and more technologically advance medium to publish the same information.
With the pro's of digital media, there are also cons. Bolter pointed out, "The shift to the computer may make writing more flexible, but it also threatens the definitions of good writing and careful reading that have developed in association with the technique of printing." I can completely see how this is a worry, because on the computer it is much easier to edit and change text, and removes the permanence associated with printed publications. It gives viewers a new sense of entitlement by, as Bolter puts it, "turning the reader into an author herself".
