From Pencils to Pixels

In "From Pencils to Pixels" by Dennis Baron I feel like he does seem to shrug at technology sometimes, but he shrugs at a lot of things in his writing.  I feel like Baron shows us good and bad sides to technology and its impact on our literacy today, however it seems like he is hesitant to use new technology.  He states that "technology has a trailing edge as well as a down side, and studying how computers are put to use raises serious issues in the politics of work and mechanisms of social control." (439) yet he goes on to say "Although the rate of change of computer development is significantly faster, it is still too early to do significant speculating." Baron is talking about how the altering of literacy practices by computers and technology remains to be seen, saying it is too early to tell if computers have altered our literacy.  Now I know this article was written in 1999, but even then a serious number of people, authors, and teachers used and embraced the use of technology in their writing.  I disagree with Baron's view point in this article; every day new technologies exist, and to say these awesome discoveries are not changing the shape of how writing is written in my opinion is crazy talk.