> He was against writing... in 370 BC This is key, we've made some progress in punctuation since his day, probably since Shakespears too. The greeks were exper

> He was against writing... in 370 BC This is key, we've made some progress in punctuation since his day, probably since Shakespears too. The greeks were experimenting with full stops but others like spaces in words ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_(punctuation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_(punctuation) ) came much later. We still can't encode emotions in textual information well but we have other methods to convey important concepts, we can make them stand out or have a list of bullet points, these weren't available to Socrates. I wonder how he'd feel about audio books.