Bolter's "Writing Space" Response

In Bolter's Chapter 2, "Writing as Technology," he discusses the evolution of writing surfaces or spaces in his section titled, "Hard and Soft Structures."  This section discusses how text is restructured, changed, and sometimes even rewritten so that it will make sense to the modern reader.  The first change is the actual writing space itself.  Bolter discusses how in ancient times things were written on papyrus.  And before the printing press was invented, scribes wrote down text by hand on paper.  The final evolution is the technological evolution of writing spaces.  Bolter says that is evolution is inevitable because the writing space must evolve with the times so that the reader may understand it.  This also correlates to what is being written.  Old texts are translated, so modern audiences can comprehend and read them.  Although, these texts are often translated to "fit the times" and translators often change, restructure and rewrite them.  These are all considered hard structures because they are "tangible qualities of the materials of writing" (Bolter).  Bolter explains soft structures as being how we present our text visually.  The way we present our writing has evolved as well.  Bolter says that we have introduced grammar, punctuations, paragraphing, and chapter divisions so that the modern reader can more easily read the text.  The very first example of a soft structure was actually the alphabet because it was the first time the ancient people had put together a structured way of how to present ideas, or how to write.  I find Bolter's explanations of hard and soft structures to be very interesting.  Like most things, even writing must change with the times.  To look at the drastic change writing structures and materials have taken over time is exciting.  What will happen in the future?