I loooooooooove text

The question is "Is there text in this class? In school? In life?" When I first read this my immediate thought was "what is the definition of text?" I feel that it's meaning now is very different to what it has been in the past. So I looked it up. The online Princeton website defined text as "the words of something written." However, another defintion from the Wikipedia defined text as "A text is a coherent set of symbols that transmits some kind of informative message."

I think both of these defintions are perfect examples of past and present text. Back when electronic devices didn't play such a dominant role in the world, text was simply text. Although it probably did include symbols because that's where the english language orginated from, you really only considered text being words from a book. In today's world, the sky is the limit with what text means. Text is everything we do because usually, everything we do is saying something and therefore text.

So to answer the question(s): yes, text is in the clasroom, the school, in life and throughout the world. Text is in what we wear to class, how Texas Tech promotes itself with graphic imagines, the well known people they hire and growing student popuation and in billboards, advertisements and stores throughout the world. Text is everywhere and in everything.

Who's a tool? You're a tool.

I really don't see how people can be tools (unless referring to the derogatory term meaning your a douche bag). I think we are definitely tool users. In fact, we are quickly becoming bigger and bigger tool users and depend more and more on the tools that are created. I remember when I was 16 and I was the only person I knew who had a cell phone. Now, people can't even function five minutes without touching their phone. Computers are on cell phones now and you can take them anywhere with you. No one goes anywhere without an ipod attached to their ear. Fancy digital touch screen cameras are a common household item. All of these items help enhance and hurry the world we live in. They are in our every day life and without them, most people would be lost. It's hard to imagine how we survived before we had all these tools. It's not just our generation that are becoming such avid tool users. demographics of all kinds are being more aware of tools and slowly becoming accustomed to them. With the world and it's ever advancing technology, us as tool users will eventually become tools ourselves.