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A comment on Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget.

Re:Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget by parenthesis on Monday April 13, 2009 @10:33PM (#560890)
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).
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Re:Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget by eru on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @07:10AM (#561294)
There is a lament by an ancient philosopher (Platon?) about the advent of writing destroying memory.
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Re:Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget by gjm11 on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @07:57AM (#561325)
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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