Helen Keller in the 21st century

I would imagine that writing in any form in the present time is drastically different from Helen Keller's time for many reasons. Perhaps the most predominant physically would be the fact that we print, and not many of us use cursive at all. We no longer use type writers and we are able to post in real time and with the rapid improvement of accessible technology, formatting in general is becoming easier for everyone to access and for documents themselves, the ability to be accessible in all contexts.

We have gotten lazy. Gone are the days of cursive and use of eloquent wording. It all seems so foreign to us, Helen would most certainly thing we are getting lazy using contractions and slang.

Formatting is so simple now. Templates on word seem to be making everything so mindless and easy. It kind of makes one think, with all our attempts to make things easier on ourselves, what are we actually doing? In The Story of my life, Helen writes in a simple manner quite effortlessly, but the language and sentence structure has changed a lot. Compare twentieth century writing to twenty first, and nineteenth to twentieth, and there is a whole different language. Not only has this changed the way we write, but also how it is read and accessed.

For Helen, books came in the form of braille, large volumes of books, an example would be the many volumes of the first Harry Potter book before the invention of portable refreshable braille displays and portable notetakers which work as computers. Helen would be fascinated by this.

The world has changed so much and alarmingly fast. I wonder how people will read her book in the future. Book, internet, e-reader, those are our options, fifty years from now, who knows?