Ong - pensamentos The sequential processing and spatializing of the word, initiated by writing and raised to new order of intensity by print, is further intensified by the computer, which maximizes commitment of the word to space and to (electronic) local motion and optimizes analytic sequentiality by making it virtually instantaneous. Walter J. Ong, in Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word The very concept of technology arises in a context of intellecual activities which would be quite impossible unless the mind had access to technology to shape its own thinking processes. Walter J. Ong, in Technology outside us and inside us "Human knowledge demands both proximity and distance, and these two are related to one another dialectically. Proximity perceptions feed distancing analyses, and vice versa, creating a more manageable intimacy. "As a time-obviating, context-free mechanism, writing separates the known from the knower more definitely than the original orally grounded manoeuver of naming does, but it also unites the knower and the known more consciously and more articulately. Writing is a consciousness-raising and humanizing technology. So is print, even more, and, in its own way, so is the computer. But that is another story, which has yet to be told or written or printed or processed." Walter J. Ong, 'Writing is a Technology That Restructures Thought', 1986 (in Faith and Contexts v4)