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Originally Posted by Sregener
Gutenberg's invention was a pretty good one on the whole. But we still gave up the ability for people to remember word-for-word what they heard (why remember when it can be written down.)
And the proliferation of books and reading led to a new era in eyeglass manufacturing as people spent far more time focusing closely, leading to widespread myopia. .
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Bold's all mine.
Holy smokes Batman. Can you say "completely unbacked up assertions?!?!"
1) Most people DIDN'T remember things word for word. Usually a very small group was tasked with such a thing.They get wiped out, bam, you have to put it all back together from the imperfect memories of others, and usually wrong. The printing press removed the "human memory error" from the process of passing along info. People didn't get lazy.
2) What a load of crock about reading and myopia. Prove it.
So take your little arguments and leave.