Computers and Writing

Chapter 13
In Chapter 13 Rice deals with cooltown and computer technology. Websites nowdays are used for personal use such as homepages. Hewlett-Pakard, a computer manufacturer, has this image where the world is connected with machines. They call this cooltown. In this environment everything would be operated through [...]

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Chapter 13 begins with Rice associating cool with technology. Hewlett-Packard has envisioned our future as Cooltown.  Cooltown is a place where everything in life is intermingled with technology. There are two basic terms on this website relevant to our own idea of cool writing, mobility and interlinking of distinct activities.  The vision of cool from Hewlett-Packard [...]

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Summary of Chapter’s 13-14.
Chapter 13-Rice discusses that thus far, cool has been used to describe technological innovation, this chapter, however, Rice begins to examine how cool and corporate development merge on the internet resulting in a futuristic, Web-based writing process starting with a concept known as cooltown.
Cooltown, named by computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard, is a [...]

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Chapter 13 explores the way corporate web-sites use technology to influence consumers to purchase their products. Citing Marshall McLuhan’s book Understanding Media, Rice points out two media types: hot and cool. Hot media requires little participation from the audience, while cool media requires “so much participation that they force media forms to participate in each [...]

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Chapter 13: The Web
            In chapter 13, Rice addresses how cool and corporate development merge on the web to create a result that predicts a futuristic, web-based writing process. Rice talks about HP’s “Cooltown,” a utopian future in which all movement is controlled by computer technology created for the internet. It is based on mobility [...]

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I chose to read some of my peer’s responses to see their views and touch on things I might have missed.  This assignment fits the chapters because they are about the changing of language, and the different techniques people use to express language and understanding.
One concept I did not really touch on was Kerouac’s rhetoric [...]

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In Chapter 13, Rice discusses the web and how it has affected the progression of cool. He cites the HP concept of  “cool town.” Cooltown was a promotional idea that HP came up with that had some interesting commentary on technologies future role in society. This was an exciting vision where people were all equipped with the technology they needed to [...]

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Chapter 13 was very insightful as it reverted back to the World Wide Web that we explored in Chapter 2. It explored personal web-sites and how they related to cool. It also examined how cool and corporate development merge on the Web so that they end result predicts a futuristic, web-based writing process.
Cooltown was the [...]

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Both Chapters 13 and 14 provide practical applications for all the information discussed over the previous twelve chapters. Chapter 13 “The Web” says that cool can be used to describe technological innovations and future predictions and then gives the implications of how corporations use cool in the Web-based writing process. Businesses use the internet’s popularity for future [...]

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Chapter 13 is a discussion about the World Wide Web the prevalence of the use of  ‘cool’ writing.  Media theorist Marshall McLuhan introduced the ideas of ‘cool’ and ‘hot’ media and their associated writings.
McLuhan describes ‘Hot’ media as a high definition form of communication in which, because of its self defining aspects, requires little [...]

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Chapter 13 focuses on writing regarding the World Wide Web. Rice traces the history of the Web, and informs the reader on the rapid rate of expansion since it’s rise to popularity in 1992. Due to the fact that so many people are online these days, the internet has become a true cultural entity. [...]

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Chapter 13
Chapter 13 discusses how corporate development relies on technology and how they use cool to influence their image. Business depends on making a profit and technology has become a crucial way to market their products and become apart of popular culture. Rice uses H.P.’s vision for the future, demonstrating a technical Utopia called [...]

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Chapter 13

The World Wide Web has experienced expansive growth creating outlets for personal expression, popular culture and ways for businesses to develop economic plans based on this technological explosion. Hewlett-Packard has done this through its conception of Cooltown where a future is envisioned as a wireless and wired world where human lives are connected with [...]

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Chapter 11 of Writing about Cool is called The Beats.  This chapter follows two of the pioneers that helped to establish this literary movement.  These guys called themselves ‘the beats’ because they felt ‘beat-down’ yet at the same time holy.  It is funny to me that Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs found enlightenment in their [...]

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Jack and Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were beat writers. They did not stay with the status quo when it came to writing. Their literature dealt with alienation, marginality, and rebellion. “They often tried to replicate in their own writnigs the ways in which technolgy functions.” Spontaneous writing has run on sentences and jumps from [...]

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In chapter 11, Rice discusses “the beats”; white, male, educated writers who started a new movement in American literature rethinking relationships to American culture. Although there were several writers, Rice only talks about two, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs and how they rhetorically created alternative forms of expression on views such as the relationships [...]

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Chapter 11 opens and trains its focus on the 2 very particular members of “The Beats;” Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. After World War 2, this “group of Disenfranchised young writers” got together to “rethink their relationship with to American culture, to media and technology, and self-expression.” These two writers in particular created some very [...]

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            After the last world war and seeing probably some of the worst parts of humanity, some individuals began a search for answers and philosophies which began the “Beat” movement.  This movement confronted the society torn by war and its issues of human condition.  Along with this movement, the 50s and 60s had great advances [...]

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Chapter 11
Feeling constraints from traditional forms of expression in writing, the Beats, a group of writers in the early 50s, created an innovative form of writing rhetoric due to the advancements in technology.  In chapter 11, Rice explains the different concepts beat writers used to illustrate how we can incorporate these techniques into writing cool [...]

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Chapter Eleven’s “The Beats”, is a very interesting topic to bring into Writing About Cool and Rice had very pertinent and interesting points to make drawing from both Keroac and Burroughs contributions. There were a few ideas, however, that stood out significantly.
One of these was spontanous writing. Found in Kerouac’s, The Subterraneans, this method of [...]

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Chapter 11 focuses on “The Beats,” a group of writers in New York City after World War II.  Rice narrows it down to two of the writers, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs because they each introduced new approaches to the construction of discourse.  The focus begins with Kerouac and the introduction of spontaneous writing, [...]

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In chapter 11 Rice discusses Kerouac’s spontaneous writing method in which sentences run into each other and ideas quickly with out much transition. This writing method is marked by a quick pace which Rice links to the speed of technological development of the 1950’s and 60’s. Spontaneous provides a look into the inner mind of [...]

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Chapter 11 mainly focuses on the Beat Generation, a group of young, white, male writers gathering in Greenwich Village and San Francisco. These individuals all share feelings of disillusionment and alienation, and called themselves “The Beats” due to a sense of self-despair and holiness. These men gave birth to an entirely new movement in American [...]

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Chapter 11
Chapter 11 gives us an overview about a new literary movement after WWII. The Beats, as they called themselves, were a group of disenfranchised writers that weren’t happy being apart of American Literature in the 1960’s. They created a new form of expression out of rebellion. Television and radio were new technological [...]

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Chapter 11:
After World War II there were advancements in technology (television and the radio), as well as a shift in the perception of how a novel should be structured. Kerouac and Burroughs, two writers, attempted to duplicate their own writings. They had several approches.
Kerouac (accredited as the founder [...]

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Chapter 11
    Chapter 11 begins by discussing “The Beats”.  They were a group of writers that started their own movement in literature.  The chapter discusses Jack Kercuac’s, one of the members of the “The Beat”, spontaneous writing.  Spontaneous writing is when sentences change from one idea to another without having a transition.  It contains a [...]

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The Beats, named for their feelings of despair, were a group of disenfranchised young, white, educated writers in New York and San Francisco who created a new American literary movement dealing with rebellion against the status quo. Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were two writers from this group who created this new form of [...]

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In Chapter 11 “The Beats” Jeff Rice describes how the development of new technology over the past century has affected the structure of modern discourse. To illustrate this point, most of the chapter tells about two members of “the Beats.” The Beats were a group of educated white males that developed an innovative movement in post-War World II American [...]

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Chapter 13:
The usage of the internet has grown dramatically since 1992. One aspect of the web expansion is an increase attention to pop culture terms like the word cool. Rice says that “Cool has been used to describe technological innovation and future predictions”. Hewlett-Packard dreams of a future where our lives are intertwined with technology. [...]

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