Baron Part 1

The book first starts by stating that there was a time when society did not like writing. one of the largest people against writing be used was Socrates. He thought that writing would weaken memory for all who used it. After some of the other readings and thinking about the topic myself I do agree that it has (most likely) weakened the human's memory who use it. The book later talks about how we went from being suspicious of writing to actually valuing it over speech. The day and age I live in I true fully understand that statement because for almost anything to be official now it needs to be in print and signed. Most things will require that rather than simply "Oh you can take my word for it." I can not think of any technologies that have been released within my life that was seen with such skepticism then suddenly used by almost everyone.

Next the book talks about one of the most commonly used utensils today for writing, the pencil. It states how the pencil went from just being a hunk of graphite to a thin strip surrounded by wood with an eraser on the end. In the last section of reading the book talks about how a teacher had students write on clay tablets to show them how writing was done in the very beginning. Then later speaks of how type writers were also looked at with suspicion then widely used. The final part of the reading deals with how the human race's technological progression and how each new invention has changed how we do things in our lives.