Ong first half

I have never really imagined being in an oral only culture. Due to writing being completely part of the world I live in and forever will be. Not only have I been dealing with it since birth, but even almost all technology I use has been thanks to writing. Thanks to writing one can easily read what others have thought, are thinking and learn from just reading. While in an oral only culture everything that one knows is from their experiences and/or told to them by another.

In this day and age great deals of people write everyday or read something that is written. Especially with internet being developed, because it allows for instantaneous writing to people around the world to read. It can allow one to find most information he or she needs or is looking for from just typing a few words into a search engine. Many think that sometimes the internet can be a pain to find something very particular yet imagine without it and having to look in books to find it. Then if you look past that to before writing, to find anything you may want to know you have to ask around and hope that someone can tell you. Just as it is in a oral only society for example, if I wanted to know what this berry is called and if it is safe to eat. I could do two things to find out. One I could simply eat the berry and find out for myself or I could ask around in hopes that someone can tell me. Without writing many things that I do and comprehend would never have existed.