"Theuth...had ruined men's memories and living command of their knowledge, by inducing a lazy trust in records ready to their hand"
Could Theuth be the wily inventor of Wikipedia? No, this quote is from Plato complaining about that ever disruptive technology: writing, Theuth being credited with inventing letters. So we see news was already getting out of hand by the 5th century B.C.E.
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ReplyDelete"Theuth...had ruined men's memories and living command of their knowledge, by inducing a lazy trust in records ready to their hand"
Could Theuth be the wily inventor of Wikipedia? No, this quote is from Plato complaining about that ever disruptive technology: writing, Theuth being credited with inventing letters. So we see news was already getting out of hand by the 5th century B.C.E.