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        "alt": "\nThamus inquired into the use of each of them, and as Theuth went through them expressed approval or disapproval, according as he judged Theuth's claims to be well or ill founded. It would take too long to go through all that Thamus is reported to have said for and against each of Theuth's inventions. But when it came to writing, Theuth declared,\n\"Here is an accomplishment, my lord the King, which will improve both the wisdom and the memory of the Egyptians. I have discovered a sure receipt for memory and wisdom.\" To this, Thamus replied, \"Theuth, my paragon of inventors, the discoverer of an art is not the best judge of the good or harm which will accrue to those who practice it. So it is in this; you, who are the father of writing, have out of fondness for your off-spring attributed to it quite the opposite of its real function. Those who acquire it will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful; they will rely on writing to bring things to their remembrance by external signs instead of by their own internal resources. What you have discovered is a receipt for recollection, not for memory. And as for wisdom, your pupils will have the reputation for it without the reality: they will receive a quantity of information without proper instruction, and in consequence be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant. And because they are filled\nwith the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom they will be a burden to society.\"!\n… Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.\nNothing could be more obvious, of course, especially to those who\nhave given more than two minutes of thought to the matter.",
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  "text": "“Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.\nNothing could be more obvious, of course, especially to those who have given more than two minutes of thought to the matter.”\n\nTechnopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology"
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