Ong's Essay in fiction

While reading Ong's article on language as a technology and the way written language fundementally alters the mind's relationship with language and the way people think, I was constantly reminded of Neal Stephenson's novel, Snow Crash. I won't go into too much detail, because I don't want to ruin the book is you haven't read it (it's an interesting read, I'd recommend it if it sounds like your sort of thing), but it takes place in the near future in a highly cyberized and commercialized world with plots to take over the world through mindcontrol, based on the earliest forms of written language. What's particularly interesting to me, and ties in quite well with this class, is that this initial form of communication is allegedly very closely linked with the binary code currently used as the most fundemental basis for computer language. I'm not sure where his research ends, and when fantasy takes over, but the book takes a lot of what Ong discusses in his article and turns it into an interesting work of fiction.