Writing Is a Technology that Restructes Thought

My understanding of Ong’s essay is that computers and other technologies that involve writing are needed and will be internalized as well as writing was long ago. We have over time interiorized writing so well that it has become natural. Writing or recording stories at some time was seen as unnatural and Plato said people who would write would loose the ability to remember…We think through writing and in order to do things that are important we put them in books, journals, review, etc…Even though writing separates the writer with his readers, alters the time and space, etc….. In fact I haven’t much progress from my first writing….