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“If men learn this ... they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written” - Plato on literacy, ca. 350 BCE.
by Corvus 9y ago
“If men learn this ... they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written” - Plato on literacy, ca. 350 BCE.
- JoshMnem 9y agoHe was right to some extent.
- davidgu 9y agoHe was absolutely right. It's just that the benefits of written language massively outweigh the small loss in memory performance we experience. If your computer's OS and all your files were stored on a 64gb ramdisk, it would be fast, yes, but not very useful.