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InvertedRhodiumyesterday at 9:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

Socrates thought the same of reading and writing, that it would weaken the memory and isolate people from one another.

1966 saw the peak of calculator protests, where math teachers claimed similar things of calculators.


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fc417fc802yesterday at 10:30 PM

TBF I suspect both of those cases are true. Just that the benefits ultimately far outweighed the costs.

mike741yesterday at 11:39 PM

all of those predictions seem to have come true