Others argued that cheaply printed books and broadsheets would undermine religious authority,
Today it seems the internet is able to undermine the authority of mainstream media by providing different sources of information for better or worse. This is similar to the printing press undermining religious authority.
Malling-Hansen Writing Ball
Never knew typewriters looked like this.
cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful
I find this to be true with spelling. You no longer have to know how to spell because Google is good at figuring out what you are trying to say.
The faster we surf across the Web—the more links we click and pages we view—the more opportunities Google and other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us advertisements.
This is true because at the end of the day Google profits from ads mostly. They made 95.4 billion last year in 2017 from ads while their total revenue was 109.65 billion. The more we click on links the more they make.
François Rabelais
Martina Navratilova
mantra
mantra an often repeated word, formula, or phrase, often a truism
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