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		parenthesis on April 14, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget It is interesting to note that having a very good memory used to be a tremendous advantage. I mean before ubiquitous books (never mind the web).

eru on April 14, 2009 [–]

There is a lament by an ancient philosopher (Platon?) about the advent of writing destroying memory.

gjm11 on April 14, 2009 | [–]

Yes, him. Generally rendered as "Plato" in English.

It is, of course, only because of writing that anyone now has even heard of Plato, never mind having available the substantial fraction of his work that we have.

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