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TECHNOLOGY AND LITERATURE

What changes do you think technology has contributed to the evolution of literature ? Technology makes it possible to have oral literary works easy to capture, preserve,and shared to millions of internet users and audiences worldwide. Introduction of new forms of technology prevents extinction of oral literary works as well as influencing it's growth and development. Before technology was introduced, transmission depended on oral performance. It's preservation solely depended on the performers memory as well as that of the community. Later on, discovery of print technology aided in preservation of texts. Although technology has helped in preservation of written forms of literature, it has failed in capturing all aspects of performance like non-verbal cues.  In capturing of details of a performance, all details from the artist should be put into account. However this cannot be put into paper because they don't indicate the artists body movement as well as audience participa...