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Socrates thought the same of reading and writing, that it would weaken the memory and isolate people from one another. 1966 saw the peak of calculator protests
by InvertedRhodium 3mo ago
Socrates thought the same of reading and writing, that it would weaken the memory and isolate people from one another.
1966 saw the peak of calculator protests, where math teachers claimed similar things of calculators.
- fc417fc802 3mo agoTBF I suspect both of those cases are true. Just that the benefits ultimately far outweighed the costs.
- mike741 3mo agoall of those predictions seem to have come true
- asdff 3mo agoSocrates was right, honestly. I would not be surprised if humans are more evolutionarily optimized for that sort of communication and thinking. Maybe socrates noticed that writers/readers vs orators/listeners were indeed generally dumber in the way we consider people riddled with short form social media induced brainrot to also be missing some mental capacity. Widespread literacy is only a few generations old, arguably I guess. Meanwhile we’ve been speaking to eachother for longer than we’ve been humans. Oral information can be kept longer than written information too it seems. Our oldest kept information is not written down, but in folk stories such as aboriginal tales some tens of thousands of years old.
- 4ffad 3mo agoTHe side benefit for certain entities is that, if you are dumber you are easier to control, influence and manipulate. Now ask yourself.. who does this benefit? Zuckerberg already generates immmense revenues from it.