Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Wasn't this the same thinking that got Galileo in trouble?

"Pope Benedict XVI has warned that people are in danger of being unable
to discern reality from fiction because of new technologies, and not old
books."
Nevertheless, Benedict, it moves.


http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/technologies+confuse+reality+fiction+Pope/3643380/story.html

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  1. BillOctober 13, 2010 at 7:14 PM

    "The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories. They will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves."
    -Socrates, in Phaedrus-

    Damned progress...

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