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Your fear is as old as time. The act of writing was considered a threat to human memory capacity and therefore wisdom too.
by nebulous_two 4y ago
Your fear is as old as time. The act of writing was considered a threat to human memory capacity and therefore wisdom too.
- throwamon 4y agoThis argument keeps being thrown around but it's pretty clear to me that this time it's actually different. Every new attention-grabbing invention is more potent than the last, and the Internet just might have crossed a threshold where it can actually break us on a large scale.
- FollowingTheDao 4y agoYou are assuming I believe that writing was not a threat as well, albeit a slower one. But here we are, because of all that reading and writing.