Ong second half

I don't know if it was so much the expansion of literacy that altered the way people think so much as printing. The affect printing had on the general public was huge because it gave everyone access the written things. The need for memorization slowly began to dwindle. When writing very first became a tool, people still had to rely on orality. Even when they would read, they would read out loud. Statements, speeches, knowledge, etc were all passed on orally even with the technology they had to write. After the printing press began, it became easier to make copies of different things and as time passes, the need for memorization becomes less. Nowadays the need for memorization is almost extinct considering the majority of the population has access to any knowledge at the swipe of a finger tip. Most people in the western world have access to a printer with the luxury of being able to print anything they could ever imagine. I'm not sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. On one hand, the amount of knowledge we can have access to is vastly larger than it was even ten years ago. On the other hand, however, the amount of knowledge we can retain in our memories alone is slowly becoming less and less.