Impact of computers

The consequences of ingenuity ... one can admire the cleverness of some new idea or technique, but it may be even smarter to be able to extrapolate the consequences of that new idea: to work out accurately what will be the results of applying the technique. This page suggests that both writing itself, and then computer technology, have had immense consequences...Walter J. Ong"s Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing...

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