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The death of handwriting?
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London, UK (Guardian Unlimited): In Plato's "Phaedrus", Socrates tells the story of a god who offers an Egyptian king a miraculous aid to frail human memory. The king is sceptical, as is Socrates who warns that writing will replace memory and argues that the truth that lives in the human soul will be dissolved in its translation into ambiguous inscription.
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