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What matters in Clive Thompson’s article “The New Literacy” is the fact that technology is good. This article has totally contradicted the movies by Mr. Fisch and Dr. Wesch, because in those videos, it is predicted that technology is bad and will one day take over the world. In this article though, it was found that technology has improved literacy skills of today’s society. People constantly twittering and updating there facebook, it has caused us to write more often. According to the article we are writing far more and with better quality then the generations before us. This is good for the future because it will help our communication skills, and if we ever find life on another planet, those skills just might keep us from being vaporized. It would also be good if the trend continued. Because then the generations after us will be even better than we are personally. All of this adds up to the fact that as, race humans are becoming smarter and smarter, we can just hope that what Dr. Wesch predicted will not come true.