For this invention will encourage forgetfulness in the minds that use it because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory but of reminding and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom not true wisdom.
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Plato on writing, the New Media of his day.
via James Gleick’s The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. This book is really, really good.
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Wacom Inkling is a cyborg pen that lets you draw vector graphics on real paper. #want
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OK. Who even cares about flying cars! Check this thing out. MUST. HAVE.
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Finally. An official trailer for Lucky McKee’s “The Woman”. And to boot, my lady is in the trailer!
#notetoself Stop using the word ‘seriously’ as an emphatic adverb—at the very least, taper off on it.
