And nobody memorized a hundred phone numbers anyway. Beyond a certain point, people had books (little black books, even) with phone numbers written in them. My

And nobody memorized a hundred phone numbers anyway. Beyond a certain point, people had books (little black books, even) with phone numbers written in them. My point is, whenever people rail against new technology, they tend to forget about old technology and how that was supposed to be the downfall of mankind back when it was new, or at least in the spotlight. For example, before TV, we had novels, and, much like how TV was railed against for destroying your mind, novels were supposed to be dangerous and deleterious: http://www.merrycoz.org/books/CONFESSN.xhtml http://www.merrycoz.org/books/CONFESSN.xhtml http://www.merrycoz.org/books/DEVOURNG.xhtml http://www.merrycoz.org/books/DEVOURNG.xhtml