Alex Tabarrok on the problem with every technology that remembers for us: "Every time you screenshot something instead of thinking, every time you share instead of reflecting, you are training yourself to be a little more hollow. You don't remember things anymore. You just know where to find them."... This was Socrates on writing, only slightly paraphrased.show more

yeh yeh, he is welcome to go to library to look for things instead of googling i get the argument, but this is classic old man yells at clouds

every time you read a book, you're depending on it to do the work for you

Philosopher also when realizing there are basically too much information, so little time and so limited our puny human brain is.

every time you listen to someone else, you're depending on them to think for you