How and why is writing a technology?

Ong said , "Although we take writing so much for granted as to forget that it is a technology, writing is in a way the most drastic of the three technologies of the word. It initiated what printing and electronics only continued, the physical reduction of dynamic sound to quiescent space, the separation of the word from the living present, where alone real, spoken words exist(22). This quote explains that writing initiated all of the new technologies. Thewrittenwordbegan the forward movement of technology, the progress the the human race has made in language and communication begin with the writing down of the alphabetic to form words. Using the sound of our voices we created speech, and using these words we now listen to hear what others are trying to communicate. We now have language and begin to tell each others stories which become our history. This new history is memorized and now we start to record history. From the words that we speak we create an alphabetic and now when this spoken word is placed on an object that we can all read, this object being paper, fur, etc. We now have a way to recording our thoughts. We can now communicate with others with this new technology the written word.