Technology

"Technology can enrich the human psyche, enlarge human spirit, set it free, intensify its interior life." -Ong
 * **Technology:** Literacy is an interiozed technology, or tool, used to restructure thought, enhance human life, increase consciousness, and create new forms and possibilities for communication. With new enhances in this technology, humans must adapt.


 * (This is strictly Walter Ong's sense of technology -- what about Baron and Frankel?** ) || **Importance:** the importance of literacy as a technology is that is provides new ways to communicate and enhances life through ways of expressing creativity. "Writing enforces verbal percision of a sort unavailable to oral cultures." -Ong (**Do you believe Ong? )** ||
 * **Conflicts:** With new forms of technology, such as the use of the computer and internet, humans must adapt to these new enhances.(**what is this word //enhances// as a noun?)** Humans could also simply apply old forms of literacy to new forms of technology, but new forms of technology will alter our literacy practices. Writing as a technology acts as a new way of communication but will never replace human interation. "Writing lacks such tonal cues of the human voice as pitch and stress, not to mention the physical cues that accompany face-to-face communication." -Baron || **Questions:** How can we use literacy as a technology to enhace human life without taking away the personal quality of social interaction associated with humans? **(What does this question mean -- use literacy as a technology? expand or modify)** ||