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Crisis? Yes. But will they stop showering the children with gadgets? No.

We should have stopped at written word. Socrates had it right.

"They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks"

I'm not opposed to that in principle. Baby steps.

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