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> people were fearmongering that people would no longer memorize things but rely too much on books...

Posters here love to bring out this argument, but I think a major weakness is that those people wound up being right. People don't memorize things any more! I don't think it's fair to hold out as an example of fears which didn't come to pass, as they very much did come to pass.



>People don't memorize things any more

....

and it made no difference.




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