Walter Ong Audio Essay

A commentary on Walter Ong’s 1977 speech to the National Humanities Institute, “Writing as Technology.”

Listening to Walter Ong talk about the shifting nature of communication opens up a space to reconsider the habits and technologies that now feel almost invisible. His descriptions of older forms of connection highlight how speaking, writing, and sharing ideas have never been fixed but have always been evolving, reshaping themselves to fit the world around them.