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Originally Posted by AngryD
What blew my mind is when Wally comments that the invention of writing hampered memory, but it also made knowledge cumulative, and that without it, societies couldn't truly evolve.
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No, it doesn't. It just makes memorising less important, or sometimes the kind of thing you need to memorise is different. Before autocues and electronic prompt and near invisible earphones the actors learned their lines.
Also there was cumulative oral tradition.
It sounds like an interesting story, but real life is more complex.
Now electronic texts accessible by mobile means that people that know how to use "search" and the starting point can seem smarter and beat the traditional reference shelf at home.
I have a library and loads of reference books where I've found the online resource don't exist or are unreliable.
Also you need to memorise a lot of starting points and for your main day to day skill/work memorise almost everything in some fields.