Beginner A, Post 3, 'Your Favourite piece of technology'

 Write about your favourite piece of technology


Say: 

What it is.
When you got it.
How you use it.
How often you use it.
Why you like it.
What life would be like without it.

- 140 words minimum.

As usual, I leave my sample entry for you to take it as a writing model -if you want to, of course-


My favourite piece of technology is paper. No, I am not crazy, and I do not want to pull your leg. It is for real. Paper has almost always been there for us, I mean, ‘us’ as humanity. So, concerning my lifetime, I have been dealing with paper my whole life.

Paper has multiple functionalities, so there would be a little difficult for me to name them all. For some reason I still do not understand, paper is a wonderful piece of edible material – meaning that you can eat it – at least when I was a little boy. To a certain extent, paper also serves as a beautiful media to put your thoughts on. Also, you can make sculptures out of paper, and that would be called ‘origami’, the art of making tri-dimensional figures out of paper.

I really do not ‘like’ paper. I would say that I ‘need’ paper, because I like to write almost everything that gets into my head. And, you would say, ‘for there is a ton of internet out there, you could create a blog and write whatever you want’. But, and there is probably my taste for it, paper is something you can touch, something you can feel with your hands, and probably, within that fact, my preference of paper over internet would reside.

Life would never be the same without paper. There would not be history, culture, and a whole transmission of first hand material for us to read and understand how humankind used to be so long ago. Without paper there would be no culture at all, or at least, not ‘durable’ culture. 

Cheers.

Comments

  1. lore chandía27 October 2020 at 15:26

    It's interesting how true it is that paper is better than some things on the computer, like, paper books would never burn my eyes like PDF.

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  2. Héctor Duarte Moreno30 October 2020 at 21:02

    Wow!, I didn´t expect that paper was your favourite piece of technology.
    It really surprised me!!

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  3. Fernanda Alarcón2 November 2020 at 13:15

    I share a lot what you say (write), paper is necessary and an amazing invention.

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  4. Sebastian B17 November 2020 at 09:47


    I have a question about the post. Do you think that with the digitization of the world, paper loses importance?

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  5. Valentina Pinto10 December 2020 at 09:08

    I agree that paper is a great invention, in addition as you say it is very versatile.

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  6. Cristóbal Albornoz11 December 2020 at 15:15

    Sometimes the most simple things are the most importants in our life.

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  7. Cindy Ruiz16 December 2020 at 13:34

    It's funny to read that in your childhood it was an eatable material. When i was a child, I used to eat the mankeke's wrapper.

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  8. Camilo Abarca17 December 2020 at 07:06

    How incredible to think that something so old and to which we are so accustomed can be a technology!

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  9. Burria18 December 2020 at 16:55

    I had never thought about how much we need paper in our lives, and I would have never considered it as technology, so really interesting reflection.

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  10. Camila Pinto20 December 2020 at 14:20

    In my opinion, the most important thing that defines a piece of technology are his multiple functions, the more functions a machine can fullfil, the better it is.

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  11. Jesús Vergara Santibáñez20 December 2020 at 17:30

    It would never have occurred to me to choose paper as a piece of technology, I only used it to make airplanes in my childhood

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  12. Agustín20 December 2020 at 17:49

    I also always write on paper, I like it much better than the digital alternatives! In fact, I started getting familiar with the computer only when I entered college. Before that, all my notes were written by hand.

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