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Old 04-11-2014, 11:23 PM   #36 (permalink)
Janszoon
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So you can only remember a finite number of things? What do you think people did before mobile phones, computers and so on? Remember books? The feel of a new novel in your hands? Its smell? Folding back the page to mark where you stopped? Now everything is kindle this and kindle that. Not the same. Tech has been great in some areas but in others it's made us really lazy and taken the strain of using our brains away.
When I was young we didn't need any of this "written language" business, we kept our information in our heads where it belongs. These days, it's cuneiform this and clay tablets that. Not the same. Written language has been great in some areas but in others it's made us really lazy and taken the strain of using our brains away.
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