This is not too different from what Plato said/wrote in the PHAEDRUS concerning what would happen to the Greeks due to the full establishment of writing (away from oral). "It [writing] will cause us to forget" (roughly) . . . and in a way, it did. In the oral age, "literate" Greeks had encyclopedic memories. Within 250 years after Plato, teachers of rhetoric had to teach memory systems. On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 07:29 AM, Serge Courrier wrote:
Hi,
Ones could think that the intense use of technology could lead to a impairment of our memory.
Immediate information finding through Web queries, automatic calendar alerts via PDA, telephone numbers memorized by cellular phones, access routes computed by GPS, and so on.
Do you know if anybody published a study or an article about this subject.
And what do YOU think about it ?
Best regards
_________________________________________ Serge Courrier Scientific journalist, Paris, France
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