Different genres and technology

I’m starting to see a link between the idea of teaching students the importance of considering the use of elements from different genres in freshman composition classes and the use of technological communication in the future. I'm also starting to think that someday composition will be done only on computers, using imagery along with words, much the same as we are doing now in our “visual essays.” I even think it’s possible that eventually we will be producing academic “essays” that have no resemblance at all to the type produced today in that they will count on imagery as foundational and words for embellishment. This I think is a good thing, because it has the potential to free us up from the confines of the written page and allow for more creative self–expression.