In “Writing is a Technology That Restructures Thought,” Walter Ong discusses the part of Plato’s Phaedrus dialog that is germane to the topic of speech and writing. Nicholas Carr, a writer interested in the relationship between ourselves and our technology and author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, offers further explanation on Plato’s Socratic dialog here that might provide further background.
