[LINK] Study: why bother to remember when you can just use Google?

[Tom Worthington]

On 15/07/11 08:35, Kim Holburn wrote:
> http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/07/study-why-bother-to-remember-when-you-can-just-use-google.ars
>
 > ... dangers of the written word to people's memory. ...

Socrates wasn't keen on writing either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_%28dialogue%29#cite_ref-plato54_49-0

This tradition continues to the present, with some university lecturers
refusing to provide copies of their lecture notes. Or they might be just 
trying to protect their intellectual property.


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