ong blog 13

Ong's article that we read for this blog, was talking about how writting is a type of technollogy. How writting dumbed people down in a sense because we no longer need to remember stuff in our brains to tell a story orally since we can just write it down and no longer need to remember details in oder to retell the story. I feel as though texting and cell phones have done the same thing. With cell phones we have everyones number all in the same spot, we no longer need to remember phone numbers, because all we have to do is go to our contacts and hit call, rather than take the time to remember the number, dial the number, and so on. So cell phones like writting is taking away from our memory skills. Texting I feel is really affecting writting and peoples intellegience because text lingo is so different than normal speech. It is almost as though it is a foriegn language that one has to relearn. So now not only do we have to no longer remember common things like before but we have to learn a whole new way of writting the texting lingo. As technogoly keeps advancing i think people will continue to become dumber in a sense because they are able to loose their brain less and less and are no longer forced to use their brain for such things such as memory. I am intrested to see where we will be 1o years from now, with the new technology, will we even have schools or will everything be through a computer?