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September 7, 2012 11:18 am PDT
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Why technology might not make children stupid, after all
All this newfangled technology is going to make young people stupid. This is a very old argument, dating back (at least) to 370-ish BC, when Plato wrote the The Phaedrus. Like the better-known Republic, Phaedrus is written as a conversation between the character of Socrates and other people. At one point, Socrates tells a legend [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/cT5TEAsliHA/why-technology-might-not-make.html
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