Reminder that Socrates was said to have hated books because they corrupted the youth, weakening students’ faculties by removing the need to memorise information.
Every single generation since records have existed thought the new tech was ruining us.
Now get off my fucking lawn.
halvar@lemy.lol 3 days ago
i just love it that they made like 20.000 of these and when one turned out to be correct it’s just so correct it makes you resonate with a random dead guy from a hundred years ago
Eq0@literature.cafe 2 days ago
I always love small misconceptions about technology that didn’t exist yet. In this case: no chance of silencing or turning off the device. Cracks me up!
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
No concept of voicemail.
Of there were answering services, they were for rich people of just called secretaries.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I was honestly ready to whine about the timing and this not making sense… but no, turns it my timeline, despite being based on books that were supposed to be well-researched, was way off. And indeed the first chatter about mobile phones was around 1908. Til.
Have some Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones