Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Ong II

     Writing is a technology that has changed the world in ways that perhaps no other technology has or will be able to ever. The advent of recording information through writing revolutionized technological advancement to an unbelievable degree. The increase in advancement after writing is astronomical it allowed people to know more than they could possible know just remembering everything. Writing as a technology is a necessary requirement for advancement of a culture at least in a technical sense.

     The shift from memories to recordings allowed specializations among people. As people begin to specialize a culture diversifies. The big thing here is when agriculture became specialized it allowed for groups of people to settle. As specialists increase their ability knowledge of that act of aspect of life can grow and continue to be recorded as improvements are made. The recordings eventually allowed anyone who wished to read them access to the knowledge of a master without the time investment, allow continuation of development to exist.


     This is short and sweet, writing revolutionized the advanced world. Nothing we have today could possibly exist without it. It's amazing to think that the world as we know it would cease to be if writing just disappeared. It may be the single omnipotent tool necessary for advancing anything without conceptual limitations.

Insanity....

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