[williamcotton]

It’s also an early example of the medium being the message. Socrates and his interlocutors are sometimes a parable on the transition from oral to written culture.

I find that it is true that new mediums and new technologies for language have a numbing effect on certain senses and an amplification of others.

Writing is beneficial in one regard but does have an impact on memory. Epic poems of great length were memorized in their entirety, a skill that would be a lot easier to develop in a world without writing.