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by kelseyfrog 460 days ago
Books made orators dumb. I'm not sure this argument has ever had any credence, not now and not when Socrates came up with his version for his time.

Any technology that renders a mental skill obsolete will undergo this treatment. We should be smart enough to recognize the rhetoric it is rather than pretend it's a valid argument for Luddism.