Ong second half

While reading “Orality and Literacy” I was surprised to read how Plato basically disliked writing. I never truly thought how writing might “destroy memory.” It makes me wonder if that is true due to being taught that writing things is to improve my memory of the subject. I write every single day to help improve my memory of something I am learning. Yet if writing is destroying my memory then does that mean had I been born into an oral only society would I have almost photographic memory? I can understand how that works because they only have their memory to teach each other or learn from what they do. Yet has our brains truly lost capacity for memory cause of the fact we were born into a society with writing. The topic just gets even more interesting with the advance technology today that enables us not to memorize so many small details such as meetings, where someone lives and much more. Whether it be a cell phone, a pad of paper or a computer they all are able to hold the information for us rather than out own mind. Which begs the question of have we lost even more memory capability due to the technology of our time?