Socrates did complain about the invention of writing, in Plato's Phaedrus: "...an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth

Socrates did complain about the invention of writing, in Plato's Phaedrus: "...an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."