Wherein Luddite Peter C. “Get Off My Lawn” Herman channels Socrates — “[writing] will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory” — (thank you, Plato, for writing that down), and John Philip Sousa — “[phonographs] are going to ruin artistic development of music in this country … the vocal chords will be eliminated by a process of evolution” — among other curmudgeons in history, and in which he cites 2 already dated studies published in journals financed by subscriptions like the ones he bemoans, and which he accessed via his university’s digital library, warns us that the end is near. Again.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 19:15:30 +0000
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