Posts tagged: technology

You can't read a post about how AI is making us dumber without running into a reference to Plato's Phaedrus and Socrates' story about King Thamus's lament that writing will give people the appearance of wisdom but not the reality of it. But nobody really talks about Thoth, the Egyptian god who invented writing. I look into who Thoth is and why he might have even more to teach us than King Thamus.

The books pile up by my bedside. Tabs just keep multiplying. My phone beckons me like a needle to an addict. When we lament the fact that nobody reads anymore, we have to factor in this attention war zone we're living in.