> people were fearmongering that people would no longer memorize things but rely too much on books... Posters here love to bring out this argument, but I think

> people were fearmongering that people would no longer memorize things but rely too much on books... Posters here love to bring out this argument, but I think a major weakness is that those people wound up being right. People don't memorize things any more! I don't think it's fair to hold out as an example of fears which didn't come to pass, as they very much did come to pass.