[lm28469]

This plato's quote about books is too often used as something like: "someone smart was wrong about something once, hence everyone is wrong about every new thing forever"

Nothing is black nor white but npm brought its fair share of dumb shit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident

[josh-at-banxa]

>Nothing is black nor white but npm brought its fair share of dumb shit

Sure. So too have books. In that instance, does the blame lie on the advent of books, or to the reader too naive to tell the difference?

[diggan]

> This plato's quote about books is too often used as something like: "someone smart was wrong about something once, hence everyone is wrong about every new thing forever"

I mean, it is fairly similar to what parent actually wrote, isn't it a relevant quote in the context? You're not actually arguing for one way or another, but simply because you've seen the quote multiple times before, it doesn't apply, or what are you trying to say?

How is the left_pad incident related to developers becoming easier to fool?

[seanthemon]

There should be a quote for that

[specialist]

Yes and: Technology (progress) always presents a tradeoff. It is never wholly positive. h/t Neil Postman's Technopoly.

On the balance, writing has been a net positive. Probably. Plato wasn't wrong; he could (or would) not anticipate the upsides.